Intermediate Backend Engineer, Application Security Testing: Composition Analysis ID-5858

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An overview of this role

Your role is to implement new features, as well as improve and maintain existing ones in collaboration with your Engineering peers and our colleagues in Product, Security, and Quality.
You will work in tandem with other groups in the Sec Section to deliver products that protect customers applications and provide them with confidence to deliver secure software, ever faster.

In your day to day, you will experience direct communication with customers, open source contributors and with product management. You will work to create a lovable experience for product categories that are used by thousands of users, and you will have access to feedback from those users, both internal and external. 
You will work on three main goals: 

  • Gather  - Introduce data points that help customers understand the urgency of issues in their security posture; e.g:
    • Reachability analysis - is this dependency used by the customers application?
    • Supply chain poisoning - has this dependency been tampered with?
    • Attribution of vulnerabilities - where and when has vulnerability been introduced?
  • Integrate  - Provide other groups with the means to take advantage of our innovative collection techniques to deliver better workflows for our customers
  • Optimize - Solve data correlation at massive scale

Some examples of our projects:

  • User documentation for Dependency Scanning.
  • User documentation for Container Scanning.
  • User documentation for Operational Container Scanning.
  • User documentation for Continuous Vulnerability Scanning.
  • Youtube playlist of Composition Analysis Features & Demos.

What You’ll Do  

What You’ll Bring 

  • Professional experience with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL. Experience with Golang is a bonus.
  • Passion about security
  • Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
  • Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
  • Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
  • Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
  • An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
  • Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
  • Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.

About the team

The Composition Analysis team is responsible for Software Composition Analysis and Container Scanning categories in GitLab. 

Our tools can identify software licenses, and search for security vulnerabilities in applications, container images, and Kubernetes environments so that developers can identify and address them as soon as possible.

We have team members in North America, Europe & Asia and, because of the multiple time zones, we rely heavily on asynchronous work. 

Thanks to our Transparency value, you can see the priorities in our roadmap, the make-up of our team, and our milestone planning issues.

How GitLab will support you

  • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
  • All remote, asynchronous work environment
  • Flexible Paid Time Off 
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and Development Fund
  • Parental leave 
  • Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. 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, and alignment with market data. 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.

California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range

$98,000$210,000 USD

Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.  

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