Senior Software Security Engineer

gitlab; United States; A distancia; USD 139.000 - 196.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health benefits

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock-P

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Team Member Resource Groups

Descripción de la vacante

GitLab is hiring a Senior Engineer for the Trust and Safety team to engineer security improvements in the GitLab product and build tools to detect abuse on our SaaS platforms. A strong Ruby/Rails background is required, with a focus on large codebases and scalable security solutions.

The role emphasizes anti-abuse platform maintenance, anomaly detection, and collaboration across engineering teams. This remote position offers a competitive salary and benefits in the United States.

Formación

• Strong software dev skills with Ruby/Rails experience.
• Experience with distributed applications in cloud environments.
• Passion for proactively developing security engineering skills.
• Comfortable in a fully remote environment where impact matters.
• Strong cloud native development experience (GCP and/or AWS).
• Interest in thinking like a hacker and automating defenses.
• Experience with AI-native development teams and agent-based systems.

Responsabilidades

• Maintain core abuse prevention systems and create new rules to detect and prevent evolving platform abuse.
• Becoming a core maintainer for the in-house abuse platform (Ruby on Rails monolith) and enhance features.
• Improve AI capabilities in abuse mitigation tools and reduce human-in-the-loop workload.
• Lead collaboration with peer engineering teams to improve product safety.
• Address automation gaps and build efficient automated processes.
• Create and maintain documentation, runbooks, and procedures.

Conocimientos

Ruby/Rails

Distributed systems

Security engineering mindset

Remote work autonomy

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

AI security focus

Code review / AI agents

Descripción del empleo

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. 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

You will engineer security improvements to the GitLab product as well as building and maintaining the tools we use to detect and prevent abuse on our SaaS platforms. A strong software engineering background with experience in large Ruby/Rails codebases is required. As a senior engineer on the Trust and Safety team, you will predictively identify abuse patterns and trends and build anomaly detection and prevention systems to mitigate abusive users and their activities.

This role is an ideal fit for candidates with software engineering backgrounds interested in moving into security engineering. Formal security engineering experience is not a hard requirement for this role.

Find out more about the Trust and Safety team and responsibilities here: Trust and Safety.

What you’ll do

• Maintain core abuse prevention systems and build new abuse detection rules to identify and prevent evolving platform abuse such as spam, AI/token, SEO optimization/redirects and other financially motivated abuse campaigns.
• Become a core maintainer for our in-house abuse platform (Ruby on Rails monolith) and be comfortable supporting and building new features for the platform.
• Improve and expand agentic AI capabilities in our abuse mitigation tools, including improving multi agent reasoning decision patterns with a target to reduce HITL operational load.
• Lead collaboration with peer engineering teams to deliver safety improvements for the GitLab product
• Resolve automation gaps and create efficient, automated processes
• Create and maintain documentation such as runbooks and procedures

What you’ll bring

• Strong software development skills with experience in Ruby/Rails
• Experience working on distributed applications with large codebases and deployed in cloud environments strongly preferred
• Passion/desire to proactivity develop security engineering skills
• Comfortable working in an all remote environment where results and impact matter above hours worked
• Strong experience with cloud native development (Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or AWS)
• Interest in “thinking like a hacker” and defending against attacks with an “automation first” mindset
• Interest in handling trust and safety security incidents and collaborating with engineering to harden platform defenses to combat abuse campaigns
• Experience working on an AI native development team maintaining teams of agents and acting as a code reviewer and experience abstracting your role away from writing code for most cases.

About the team

Trust and Safety is a global team tasked with keeping abusive behaviors off of GitLab.com. The team relies on automations, LLM aided anomaly detections, and user behavior analysis to proactively detect and prevent abuse on the Gitlab platform. The Trust and Safety team closely collaborates with peer teams within Security Operations, including Security Incident Response, Signals Engineering, Threat Intelligence, and the Red Team.

United States Salary Range

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.

$139,200 — $196,000 USD

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• 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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