Intermediate Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend features for GitLab’s vulnerability management workflows.
• Build and improve security data ingestion, reporting, dashboards, and vulnerability-management systems for performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Ship features with minimal guidance, collaborate on larger projects, and contribute across the stack when needed.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, product designers, and related security teams.
• Write maintainable, high-quality code, conduct code reviews, respond to community contributions, and address technical debt.
• Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

Requirements

• Experience building and maintaining backend applications with Ruby on Rails.
• Experience delivering and maintaining software systems as part of a larger engineering team.
• Ability to investigate technical problems, seek context when needed, and work toward practical resolutions.
• 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, vulnerability management, application security, or related transferable skills is helpful.

Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement, subject to location-based eligibility requirements.
• Health, financial, and well-being benefits for full-time employees.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Team Member Resource Groups.
• Equity compensation and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Growth and Development Fund.
• Parental leave.