Intermediate Software Engineer, Security Factory: Vulnerability Management

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An overview of this role

As an Intermediate Software Engineer on GitLab’s Vulnerability Management team, you’ll help build the core security workflows that GitLab Ultimate customers use to triage, prioritize, and act on vulnerabilities. You’ll work primarily in Ruby on Rails on backend systems, including security dashboards, vulnerability reports, and ingestion pipelines. You’ll take ownership of well-defined projects, solve technical problems with support from experienced team members, and collaborate with other engineers. You’ll also have opportunities to contribute beyond the backend when the work requires it.

You will join a fullstack team, working together with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to solve problems across the Vulnerability Management domain.

What you’ll do

• 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