As a member of the security team at GitLab, you will be working towards raising the bar on security. We will achieve that by working and collaborating with cross-functional teams to provide guidance on security best practices.
The Security Team is responsible for leading and implementing the various initiatives that relate to improving GitLab's security.
The Security Engineer is a grade 6.
The Senior Security Engineer role extends the Intermediate Security Engineer role.
A Senior Security Engineer may decide to pursue the security engineering management track at this point, should they wish to. See Engineering Career Development for more detail on the tracks available for Senior Engineers.
The Senior Security Engineer is a grade 7.
The Staff Security Engineer role extends the Senior Security Engineer role.
The Staff Security Engineer is a grade 8.
The Principal Security Engineer role extends the Staff Security Engineer role.
The Principal Security Engineer is a grade 9.
The Distinguished Security Engineer role extends the Principal Security Engineer role.
The Distinguished Security Engineer is a grade 10.
Security research specialists are subject matter experts (SME) that conduct research in their area of expertise to protect GitLab the product and GitLab company assets. They are also encouraged to participate in the larger security community through blog posts and participation in industry conferences. Responsibilities for this specialty include:
Application Security specialists work closely with development teams, product managers (PM), and third-party groups (including the paid bug bounty program) to ensure that GitLab products are secure.
Application Security Responsibilities
Application Security Requirements
By leveraging diverse technologies and an automation first approach, the Security Automation team strives towards improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and accuracy within GitLab's Information Security program with a focus on cost savings. Examples include the creation of automated security issue triage and management solutions, automating handling of repetitive tasks, and defining re-usable security automation architectures. Additionally, the Security Automation team will assist other security specialty teams with automation efforts they are leading and developing through the assessment of automation tools, and integration tools and technologies to support automation efforts as needed.
Security Automation Responsibilities
Security Automation Requirements
SIRT Engineers are the firefighters of the GitLab Security Team. As a Security Engineer in SIRT your daily duties will include incident response, log analysis, forensics, tooling and automation development, as well as contributing to strategic improvements to the GitLab products and GitLab.com services. Successful Security Engineers thrive in high-stress environments and can think like both an attacker and defender, have the ability to engage with and mentor more junior Security Engineers, and can help come up with proactive and preventative security measures to keep GitLab and its user’s data safe.
More information about the SIRT role is described in the persona of Alex, SIRT Engineer
SIRT Responsibilities
SIRT Requirements
Trust & Safety Engineers are the builders of the anti-abuse world. They develop the tools needed to monitor, mitigate and report on abusive behavior and are an essential part of our goal to be good internet citizens.
A successful candidate is someone who wants to make the internet a safer place and do the right thing because it’s right.
Your daily duties will include building tooling and automation for curbing abuse, assist with incident response, as well as contributing to strategic improvements to the GitLab products and GitLab.com services.
Trust & Safety Responsibilities
Trust & Safety Requirements
Security Assurance Engineers enable Sales by achieving standards as required by our customers and helping to secure the organization. This includes SaaS, self-managed, and open source instances.
Red Team specialists emulate adversary activity to better GitLab’s enterprise and product security. The role requires the ability to think like an advanced persistent threat. Creativity is key. For example, develop attack plans and stealthily execute them to compromise sensitive information on GitLab.com such as private repos, or develop and distribute malware to GitLab team-members to demonstrate how the corporate enterprise could be compromised.
This role reports directly to the VP of Security. Generally we would see this specialty to be filled at the Distinguished level. Distinguished engineers and Fellows have the widest sphere of influence and responsibility at the individual contributor level and as such may be asked to focus on high impacting focus areas. The security architect is a highly technical role responsible for planning, designing, testing, implementing and maintaining security strategy and solutions across the entire GitLab ecosystem. More specifically the responsibilities of this role include:
All interviews are conducted using Zoom video conferencing software. Candidates for Security Engineer roles can expect the hiring process to follow the order below, with modifications to the process as required, based on specific situations. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. To learn more about someone who may be conducting the interview, find their job title on our team page.
As always, the interviews and screening call will be conducted via a video call. See more details about our hiring process on the hiring handbook.
For more details on the engineering career ladders, please review the engineering career development handbook page.
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