Senior Backend Engineer, Pipeline Security
GitLab
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Build and maintain secure, readable backend code primarily in Ruby on Rails, with some development in Go for targeted components.
- Design backend architecture for complex security features, including secrets access control, pipeline security enforcement, and OpenBao integration.
- Lead the development of role-based access control models, GraphQL APIs, and supporting application patterns for features owned by the team.
- Own features end to end, from technical design and implementation through deployment, validation, and production support.
- Collaborate with Product, security partners, and other engineering teams to document tradeoffs, align on direction, and deliver iteratively in a distributed environment.
- Improve code quality, maintainability, security, and performance through code review, design iteration, and internal standards for a high-scale web environment.
- Build and maintain Helm charts, including configuration, tuning, documentation, and automated testing for Kubernetes-based deployments.
- Validate features in Kubernetes environments, including GitLab Cloud Native and Cloud Native Hybrid deployments, using GitLab testing and performance testing frameworks.
Requirements
- Experience building and maintaining backend features with a focus on secure design, data handling, and production reliability.
- Ability to write production-quality code in Ruby on Rails, including use of framework security patterns and review for common application risks.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and the ways pipelines can be misconfigured, abused, or expose sensitive data.
- Familiarity with secrets management approaches and security practices for handling credentials in CI environments; experience with tools such as HashiCorp Vault or similar systems is helpful.
- Comfort collaborating across Product and engineering teams in an asynchronous, distributed environment and communicating technical tradeoffs clearly in writing.
- Ability to review merge requests with a security-first mindset and improve solutions through feedback and iteration.
- Experience debugging production issues, including investigation of security-related behavior and proposing practical fixes.
- Openness to learning adjacent domains and tools, including Go, container security, and software supply chain security; we welcome transferable experience from different technical backgrounds.
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support
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Hard Skills & Tools
Ruby on RailsGoGraphQLKubernetesCI/CDHelmsecrets managementcode reviewproduction debuggingsecurity patterns
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationleadershipproblem-solvingiterationdocumentationasynchronous workfeedbackadaptabilitylearning