Intermediate Backend Engineer - Govern: Threat Insights
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An overview of this role
As our next Backend Engineer in Threat Insights, you will be working on some highly visible features used daily by software engineers all the way up to CISOs. Our aim is to enable everyone to easily understand risk and mitigation. All sizes of customers use our product offering, so this means we need to build systems that scale effectively while enabling our customers to achieve their goals efficiently.
You will work together with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to solve problems across the Threat Insights domain. While your main focus will be advancing the Threat Insights performance and optimization offering, you will work collaboratively with peers focused on scalability and AI enhancements, ensuring our deliverables harmonize well.
What You’ll Do
Develop 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 our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment
Conduct Code Review within our Code Review Guidelines and ensure community contributions receive a swift response
Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ('technical debt'), propose and implement solutions
Confidently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members; collaborate with the team on larger projects.
Participate in on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.
What You’ll Bring
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 a demonstrated ability to both 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, with a positive and solution-oriented mindset.
Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills
About the team
The Threat Insights team is part of the cross-functional Agile team responsible for the Vulnerability Management category. Vulnerability management is the process of identifying, prioritizing, and tracking vulnerabilities in assets and applications. At its very simplest, vulnerability management aims to help security professionals efficiently and effectively determine what weaknesses to address in what order.
More information about our team:
Youtube playlists
How GitLab will support you
All remote, asynchronous work environment
Home office support
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
About the job
Intermediate Backend Engineer - Govern: Threat Insights
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Development jobs
An overview of this role
As our next Backend Engineer in Threat Insights, you will be working on some highly visible features used daily by software engineers all the way up to CISOs. Our aim is to enable everyone to easily understand risk and mitigation. All sizes of customers use our product offering, so this means we need to build systems that scale effectively while enabling our customers to achieve their goals efficiently.
You will work together with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to solve problems across the Threat Insights domain. While your main focus will be advancing the Threat Insights performance and optimization offering, you will work collaboratively with peers focused on scalability and AI enhancements, ensuring our deliverables harmonize well.
What You’ll Do
Develop 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 our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment
Conduct Code Review within our Code Review Guidelines and ensure community contributions receive a swift response
Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ('technical debt'), propose and implement solutions
Confidently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members; collaborate with the team on larger projects.
Participate in on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.
What You’ll Bring
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 a demonstrated ability to both 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, with a positive and solution-oriented mindset.
Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills
About the team
The Threat Insights team is part of the cross-functional Agile team responsible for the Vulnerability Management category. Vulnerability management is the process of identifying, prioritizing, and tracking vulnerabilities in assets and applications. At its very simplest, vulnerability management aims to help security professionals efficiently and effectively determine what weaknesses to address in what order.
More information about our team:
Youtube playlists
How GitLab will support you
All remote, asynchronous work environment
Home office support
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.