Vulnerability Management Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

Remote; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Software Engineer for its Vulnerability Management team in San Francisco. You will work on core security workflows, primarily in Ruby on Rails, building backend features for triage, prioritization, and remediation of vulnerabilities.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver scalable, high-quality software. The role offers opportunities to contribute beyond the backend and participate in on-call rotations for

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Vue.js

Tools

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Job description

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Software Engineer for its Vulnerability Management team in San Francisco. You will work on core security workflows, primarily in Ruby on Rails, building backend features for triage, prioritization, and remediation of vulnerabilities.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver scalable, high-quality software. The role offers opportunities to contribute beyond the backend and participate in on-call rotations for