<div class="content-intro"><p>The GitLab&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/devops-platform/" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/devops-platform/" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">DevSecOps platform</a>&nbsp;empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently. We are one of the&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">world’s largest all-remote companies</a>&nbsp;with 2,000+ team members and&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/values/" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">values</a>&nbsp;that foster a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute. Learn more about&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="https://vimeo.com/778157354" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://vimeo.com/778157354" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">Life at GitLab</a>.</p></div><h4><strong>An overview of this role</strong></h4>
<p>As our next <a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/development/backend/">Backend Engineer</a> in Threat Insights, you will be working on some <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/direction/govern/threat_insights/17_threat_insights_priorities.html">highly visible features</a> used daily by software engineers all the way up to CISOs. Our aim is to enable everyone to easily understand risk and mitigation. All sizes of customers use our product offering, so this means we need to build systems that scale effectively while enabling our customers to achieve their goals efficiently.</p>
<p>You will work together with product managers, designers, and <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/development/frontend/">frontend engineers</a> to solve problems across the Threat Insights domain. While your main focus will be advancing the Threat Insights product offering, you will work collaboratively with peers focused on scalability and AI enhancements, ensuring our deliverables harmonize well.<br><br></p>
<p><strong>What You’ll Do</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li>Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way</li>
<li>Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering to maintain a high bar for quality</li>
<li>Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance</li>
<li>Craft code that meets our<a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/contributing/style_guides.html"> internal standards</a> for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment</li>
<li>Conduct <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/workflow/code-review/">Code Review</a> within our <a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/code_review.html">Code Review Guidelines</a> and ensure community contributions receive a swift response</li>
<li>Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions</li>
<li>Confidently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members; collaborate with the team on larger projects.</li>
<li>Participate in<a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/processes/Infra-Dev-Escalation/process.html"> on-call rotations</a> to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What You’ll Bring&nbsp;</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Significant <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#professional-experience">professional experience</a> with Ruby on Rails</li>
<li>Strong experience with relational databases (postgres preferred).</li>
<li>Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions</li>
<li>Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems</li>
<li>Comfort working in a highly agile, <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#iteration">intensely iterative</a> software development process</li>
<li>Effective communication skills: <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#collaboration">Regularly achieve consensus with peers</a>, provide clear and consistent status updates, with a positive and solution-oriented mindset.</li>
<li>Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution</li>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#efficiency">Self-motivated and self-managing</a>, with strong organizational skills</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>About the team</strong></p>
<p>The<a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/team/?department=govern-threat-insights-be-team"> Threat Insights team</a> is part of the cross-functional Agile team responsible for the<a href="https://about.gitlab.com/direction/govern/threat_insights/vulnerability_management/#overview"> Vulnerability Management</a> category. Vulnerability management is the process of identifying, prioritizing, and tracking vulnerabilities in assets and applications. At its very simplest, vulnerability management aims to help security professionals efficiently and effectively determine what weaknesses to address in what order.</p>
<p>More information about our team:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/sec/govern/sp-ti-planning/">How we do planning</a></li>
<li>Youtube playlists</li>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL05JrBw4t0Kp8oA6OJ6_wm7uw0muud_mZ">Features &amp; demos</a></li>
<li><a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL05JrBw4t0Kqbe1LMQx9tw1q9WCINEVng">Office hours</a></li>
</ul>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/12683">Priorities epic</a></li>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/sec/govern/threat-insights/">Engineering sub-department handbook page</a></li>
</ul>
<h4><strong>How GitLab will support you</strong></h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/">Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being</a></li>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/">All remote</a>, <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/asynchronous/">asynchronous</a> work environment</li>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/paid-time-off/">Flexible Paid Time Off</a></li>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/erg-guide/#:~:text=Definition%20of%20the%20TMRG%20%2D%20Team%20Member%20Resource%20Groups,-TMRGs%20are%20voluntary&amp;text=The%20purpose%20for%20this%20type,developing%20the%20sense%20of%20belonging.">Team Member Resource Groups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/stock-options/">Equity Compensation &amp; Employee Stock Purchase Plan</a></li>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/#growth-and-development-benefit">Growth and development budget&nbsp;</a></li>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/#parental-leave">Parental leave</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/finance/procurement/office-equipment-supplies/">Home office</a> support</li>
</ul>
<p>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 <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/#examples-of-select-underrepresented-groups">underrepresented groups</a> 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.</p>
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<div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: white;">Remote-Global</span></span></div><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><em><span data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Arial';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;">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 </span><a class="waffle-rich-text-link" href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/" data-sheets-formula-bar-text-link="https://bit.ly/GLBeneUS" data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:12px;color:#1155cc;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;font-family:''Arial'';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;">benefits</a><span data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Arial';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;"> and </span><a class="waffle-rich-text-link" href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/stock-options/" data-sheets-formula-bar-text-link="https://bit.ly/GLequity" data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:12px;color:#1155cc;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;font-family:''Arial'';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;">equity</a><span data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Arial';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;">. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.</span></em></p></div><div class="title">California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC pay range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$98,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$210,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><hr>
<p><strong>Country Hiring Guidelines: </strong>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.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Privacy Policy: </strong>Please review our <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/candidate/faq/recruitment-privacy-policy/" target="_blank">Recruitment Privacy Policy.</a> Your privacy is important to us.</p>
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The GitLab [DevSecOps platform](https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/devops-
platform/) empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more
efficiently. We are one of the [world’s largest all-remote
companies](https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/) with
2,000+ team members and [values](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/values/)
that foster a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can
contribute. Learn more about [Life at GitLab](https://vimeo.com/778157354).

####  **An overview of this role**

As our next [Backend Engineer](https://handbook.gitlab.com/job-
families/engineering/development/backend/) in Threat Insights, you will be
working on some [highly visible
features](https://about.gitlab.com/direction/govern/threat_insights/17_threat_insights_priorities.html)
used daily by software engineers all the way up to CISOs. Our aim is to enable
everyone to easily understand risk and mitigation. All sizes of customers use
our product offering, so this means we need to build systems that scale
effectively while enabling our customers to achieve their goals efficiently.

You will work together with product managers, designers, and [frontend
engineers](https://about.gitlab.com/job-
families/engineering/development/frontend/) to solve problems across the
Threat Insights domain. While your main focus will be advancing the Threat
Insights product offering, you will work collaboratively with peers focused on
scalability and AI enhancements, ensuring our deliverables harmonize well.  
  

**What You’ll Do**  

  * Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
  * Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering to maintain a high bar for quality
  * Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
  * Craft code that meets our[ internal standards](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/contributing/style_guides.html) for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment
  * Conduct [Code Review](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/workflow/code-review/) within our [Code Review Guidelines](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/code_review.html) and ensure community contributions receive a swift response
  * Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions
  * Confidently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members; collaborate with the team on larger projects.
  * Participate in[ on-call rotations](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/processes/Infra-Dev-Escalation/process.html) to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

**What You’ll Bring  **

  * Significant [professional experience](https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#professional-experience) with Ruby on Rails
  * Strong experience with relational databases (postgres preferred).
  * 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 and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
  * Comfort working in a highly agile, [intensely iterative](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#iteration) software development process
  * Effective communication skills: [Regularly achieve consensus with peers](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#collaboration), provide clear and consistent status updates, with a positive and solution-oriented mindset.
  * Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
  * [Self-motivated and self-managing](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#efficiency), with strong organizational skills

**About the team**

The[ Threat Insights
team](https://about.gitlab.com/company/team/?department=govern-threat-
insights-be-team) is part of the cross-functional Agile team responsible for
the[ Vulnerability
Management](https://about.gitlab.com/direction/govern/threat_insights/vulnerability_management/#overview)
category. Vulnerability management is the process of identifying,
prioritizing, and tracking vulnerabilities in assets and applications. At its
very simplest, vulnerability management aims to help security professionals
efficiently and effectively determine what weaknesses to address in what
order.

More information about our team:

  * [How we do planning](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/sec/govern/sp-ti-planning/)
  * Youtube playlists
    * [Features & demos](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL05JrBw4t0Kp8oA6OJ6_wm7uw0muud_mZ)
    * [Office hours](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL05JrBw4t0Kqbe1LMQx9tw1q9WCINEVng)
  * [Priorities epic](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/12683)
  * [Engineering sub-department handbook page](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/sec/govern/threat-insights/)

#### **How GitLab will support you**

  * [Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/)
  * [All remote](https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/), [asynchronous](https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/asynchronous/) work environment
  * [Flexible Paid Time Off](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/paid-time-off/)
  * [Team Member Resource Groups](https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/erg-guide/#:~:text=Definition%20of%20the%20TMRG%20%2D%20Team%20Member%20Resource%20Groups,-TMRGs%20are%20voluntary&text=The%20purpose%20for%20this%20type,developing%20the%20sense%20of%20belonging.)
  * [Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/stock-options/)
  * [Growth and development budget ](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/#growth-and-development-benefit)
  * [Parental leave](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/#parental-leave) 
  * [Home office](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/finance/procurement/office-equipment-supplies/) 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](https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/#examples-of-
select-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.



Remote-Global

 _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](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-
rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/) and
[equity](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/stock-options/). 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 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.  

**Privacy Policy:** Please review our [Recruitment Privacy
Policy.](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/candidate/faq/recruitment-
privacy-policy/) Your privacy is important to us.

GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative
action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment,
employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are
based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex
(including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or
gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental
or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical
history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which
includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime
or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any
other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or
harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also [GitLab’s EEO
Policy](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-policies/inc-usa/#equal-
employment-opportunity-policy) and [EEO is the
Law](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/labor-and-employment-notices/#eeoc-us-
equal-employment-opportunity-commission-notices). If you have a disability or
special need that requires
[accommodation](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-policies/inc-
usa/#reasonable-accommodation), please let us know during the [recruiting
process](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/interviewing/#adjustments-
to-our-interview-process).

