Intermediate Backend Engineer, SRM: Security Platform Management at GitLab

Requirements

Proficiency in backend development with Ruby on Rails, including building and maintaining production services
Experience designing and optimizing PostgreSQL schemas and queries for large-scale data
Experience building and maintaining REST and GraphQL APIs that integrate with complex products or platforms
Familiarity with Git-based workflows and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), ideally using GitLab
Knowledge of Elasticsearch and NoSQL database technologies, or interest in learning and applying them
Experience working in collaborative, cross-functional teams with product management and design
Ability to work autonomously in an all-remote, asynchronous environment while staying aligned with team goals
Interest in security domains and in building scalable, reliable solutions for enterprise customers, with openness to transferable experience from related areas

Design and develop next-generation Security Platform Management capabilities that strengthen GitLab’s enterprise security offering
Build and optimize scalable backend services and data models in Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL for large volumes of security data
Develop and maintain robust REST and GraphQL APIs that power security workflows across the GitLab platform
Collaborate with Infrastructure, Policies, and Security Insights teams to deliver cross-functional security features end to end
Implement and refine unified configuration mechanisms for GitLab’s suite of security tools to simplify management at scale
Work within focused, feature-specific squads to deliver high-impact, well-tested functionality with minimal context switching
Contribute to technical design decisions, code reviews, and standards that shape the architecture of GitLab’s security platform