Staff Software Engineer, Security Foundations

About the role

The Vulnerability Management team contributes to GitLab's move toward modular services and will help other Security teams adopt these patterns over time. Today, we include two Staff Software Engineers, two Senior Software Engineers, and one Intermediate Software Engineer across the United Kingdom, Poland, the Netherlands, and India.

What you'll do

• Lead large technical deliverables from initial problem definition through delivery, often across multiple months or quarters
• Design and develop backend systems for vulnerability and dependency management, including security report ingestion, storage, indexing, querying
• Build and improve systems using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL, and contribute to newer services using technologies such as Go or Rust where appropriate
• Shape technical plans, break down complex work, and help other engineers deliver effectively
• Work directly with product, design, frontend, and engineering partners to make clear decisions, resolve constraints, and deliver measurable progress

What you need

• 6–10 years in software engineering
• PostgreSQL
• Go
• Git
• Ruby
• Vulnerability assessment
• Rust
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Roadmapping