Intermediate Backend Engineer (RoR), Security Risk Management: Security Insights

GitLab; Myrtle Point (OR); Remote; USD 98,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company is looking for a Backend Engineer to work on vulnerability management features within the Security Insights team. The role demands strong expertise in Ruby on Rails and relational databases like Postgres. You will collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to improve product quality and performance. This is a fully remote position offering flexibility and multiple benefits.

Benefits

Flexible Paid Time Off

Remote work environments

Growth and development budget

Equity Compensation

Parental leave

Home office support

Qualifications

• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Strong experience with relational databases, preferably Postgres.
• Demonstrated capacity to communicate about technical problems.
• Experience diagnosing and preventing performance issues.
• Comfortable in an agile, iterative software development process.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production.

Responsibilities

• Develop vulnerability management features for the GitLab product.
• Collaborate with Product Management to maintain quality standards.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure community contributions receive response.
• Participate in on-call rotations for troubleshooting and support.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Postgres

Performance and optimization

Effective communication

Agile methodologies

Job description

An overview of this role

As a Backend Engineer in Security Insights, you will be working on vulnerability management features used daily by software engineers, application security engineers, and CISOs. Our aim is to enable everyone to easily understand risk and mitigation of software exploits. All sizes of customers use our product offering, so this means we need to build systems that scale effectively while enabling our customers to achieve their goals efficiently.

You will join a full stack team, working together with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to solve problems across the Security Insights domain.

What You’ll Do

• Develop vulnerability management features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering to maintain a high bar for quality
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
• Craft code that meets internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment
• Conduct code reviews within Code Review Guidelines and ensure community contributions receive a swift response
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team (technical debt), propose and implement solutions
• Confidently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members; collaborate with the team on larger projects
• Participate in on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues

What You’ll Bring

• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails
• Strong experience with relational databases (Postgres preferred)
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to diagnose and prevent these problems
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
• Effective communication skills: regularly achieve consensus with peers, provide clear and consistent status updates, with a positive and solution-oriented mindset
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills

About the team

Security Insights is part of our Security Risk Management DevSecOps stage, and is specifically responsible for the Vulnerability Management category. Vulnerability management is the process of identifying, prioritizing, and tracking vulnerabilities in assets and applications. At its very simplest, vulnerability management aims to help security professionals efficiently and effectively determine what weaknesses to address in what order.

More information about our team:

• Engineering sub-department handbook page
• How we do planning
• Priorities and Planning epic

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget
• Parental leave
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you\'re excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range $98,000 — $210,000 USD

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