Intermediate Backend Engineer – Security Platform Management
GitLab
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $98,000 - $210,000 per year
About the role
- 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
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
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 RailsPostgreSQLREST APIsGraphQL APIsElasticsearchNoSQLbackend developmentdata modelingproduction servicesCI/CD
Soft Skills
collaborationautonomycross-functional teamworkcommunicationproblem-solvingadaptabilitytechnical designcode reviewstandards compliancecontext switching