Intermediate Backend Engineer, Ruby on Rails – Security Risk Management
GitLab
full-time
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Location: California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $98,000 - $210,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
PostgresRubyRuby on RailsSDLCSwift
About the role
- Develop vulnerability management 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 internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment
- Conduct code reviews and ensure community contributions receive a swift response
- Recognize impediments to team efficiency (technical debt), propose and implement solutions
- Confidently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance; collaborate with the team on larger projects
- Participate in on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues
- Work in a full stack team with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to build scalable systems for vulnerability management
Requirements
- Significant 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 ability to diagnose and prevent these problems
- Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
- Effective communication skills: regularly achieve consensus with peers, provide clear and consistent status updates
- Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
- Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills