Software Engineer - Security and Performance - Remote

Overview

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 Short

• 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 (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
• Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team and propose solutions.
• Experience direct communication with customers and open source contributors.
• Work on projects related to Dependency Scanning and Container Scanning.
• Self-motivated and self-managing with excellent organizational skills.

Requirements

• Professional experience with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL. Experience with Golang is a bonus.
• Passion about security.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production.
• Demonstrated capacity to communicate about complex technical problems.
• Ability to diagnose and prevent performance issues.
• Inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.

Benefits

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