Remote Senior Ruby Engineer - Authorization Platform

Far Coder; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Remote Senior Software Engineer (Ruby) for the Security Platform: Authorization team. You will design, build, and scale the permission model across Rails monolith and a Rust-based engine, ensuring secure, fine-grained access control for users, tokens, and automated agents across GitLab.com and Self-Managed deployments.

Role emphasizes performance, security, and collaboration with authentication, platform, and modular-service teams.

Qualifications

• Experience building production Ruby on Rails applications.
• Security-minded with authorization systems design.
• Familiar with GraphQL and API authorization patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship authorization changes in GitLab's Ruby on Rails monolith.
• Own a workstream end to end with feature-flagged rollout, dual-run verification, and cleanup.
• Extend fine-grained token permissions across GraphQL and REST APIs.

Skills

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

Rails

Rust

Ruby

Go

Tools

REST

Buffer

Compliance

Medical

Ruby on Rails

Security

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Remote Senior Software Engineer (Ruby) for the Security Platform: Authorization team. You will design, build, and scale the permission model across Rails monolith and a Rust-based engine, ensuring secure, fine-grained access control for users, tokens, and automated agents across GitLab.com and Self-Managed deployments.

Role emphasizes performance, security, and collaboration with authentication, platform, and modular-service teams.