Intermediate Software Engineer, Security Factory: Vulnerability Management

Jackalope Digital LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Flexible PTO

Employee resource groups

Equity + ESPP

Growth and development fund

Parental leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Software Engineer for its Vulnerability Management team. You’ll build core security workflows, focusing on Ruby on Rails backend systems, dashboards, reports, and ingestion pipelines.

You’ll own well-defined projects and collaborate with engineers while occasionally contributing to the frontend when needed. You’ll join a fullstack team, working with product managers and designers to solve problems across the Vulnerability Management domain, contributing to

Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining backend applications with Ruby on Rails.
• Experience delivering and maintaining software systems as part of a larger engineering team.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and practical debugging.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Clear communication and collaboration skills in a distributed team.
• Frontend development experience with JavaScript or Vue.js is helpful.
• Experience with Elasticsearch, graph databases, or vulnerability management is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend features for GitLab’s vulnerability management workflows.
• Ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and collaborate on larger projects.
• Improve performance, reliability, and scalability of data ingestion and reporting systems.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers and contribute across the stack when needed.
• Work with engineers across security teams on vulnerability data and workflows.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

JavaScript

Vue.js

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Distributed collaboration

Tools

GitLab

Job description

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our valuesand continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

*Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.

An overview of this role

As an Intermediate Software Engineer on GitLab’s Vulnerability Management team, you’ll help build the core security workflows that GitLab Ultimate customers use to triage, prioritize, and act on vulnerabilities. You’ll work primarily in Ruby on Rails on backend systems, including security dashboards, vulnerability reports, and ingestion pipelines. You’ll take ownership of well-defined projects, solve technical problems with support from experienced team members, and collaborate with other engineers. You’ll also have opportunities to contribute beyond the backend when the work requires it.

You will join a fullstack team, working together with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to solve problems across the Vulnerability Management domain.

What you’ll do

• Develop and maintain backend features for GitLab’s vulnerability management workflows.
• Confidently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members; collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Help improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of security data ingestion and reporting systems.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers and contribute across the stack when needed.
• Work with engineers across security teams as vulnerability data and workflows come together in Vulnerability Management.

• Collaborate with Product Management and Product Design to maintain a high bar for quality
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment
• Conduct code reviews within our 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
• Participate on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

What you’ll bring

• Experience building and maintaining backend applications with Ruby on Rails.
• Experience delivering and maintaining software systems as part of a larger engineering team.
• The ability to investigate technical problems, ask for context when needed, and work toward a practical resolution.
• Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Clear communication and collaboration skills in a distributed team.
• An interest in learning from others, sharing knowledge, and growing your technical skills.
• Frontend development experience, including JavaScript or Vue.js, is helpful.
• Experience with Elasticsearch, graph databases, vulnerability management, application security, or related transferable skills is helpful.

About the team

The Vulnerability Management team develops the core security workflows that help GitLab customers triage and manage vulnerabilities. The team owns areas including the security dashboard, vulnerability reports, and ingestion pipelines, and serves as an important interface for security-related features across GitLab. The team is focused on moving beyond lists of findings toward workflows that help customers prioritize and coordinate remediation. You’ll collaborate asynchronously with a small, distributed group and with related security teams, including the Agentic Security Flows team.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. 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, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. 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.

United States Salary Range

$115,200 — $172,800 USD

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

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