Intermediate Backend Engineer, Golang – Application Security, Composition Analysis

GitLab

full-time

Posted on: 9/18/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois

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💰 $98,000 - $210,000 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

GoKubernetesOpen SourceRubyRuby on RailsSDLC

About the role

Implement new features and improve and maintain existing ones in collaboration with Engineering, Product, Security, and Quality teams
Work in tandem with Sec Section to deliver products that protect customers' applications and provide confidence to deliver secure software
Communicate directly with customers, open source contributors, and product management to create a lovable experience used by thousands of users
Gather security-relevant data (reachability analysis, supply chain poisoning detection, attribution of vulnerabilities)
Integrate collection techniques to provide other groups with means to deliver better customer workflows
Optimize data correlation and performance at massive scale
Craft secure, well-tested, and performant Golang code meeting internal standards and participate in code reviews
Recognize and address technical debt and propose/implement solutions
Participate in Tier 2/3 on-call rotations and the reaction rotation for security, support, and maintenance issues

Professional experience with Golang
Experience with Ruby on Rails 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
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