What you’ll bring

• Strong software development skills with experience in Ruby/Rails.
• Experience working on distributed applications with large codebases and deployed in cloud environments strongly preferred.
• Passion/desire to proactively develop security engineering skills.
• Comfortable working in an all remote environment where results and impact matter above hours worked.
• Strong experience with cloud native development (Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or AWS).
• Interest in “thinking like a hacker” and defending against attacks with an “automation first” mindset.
• Interest in handling trust and safety security incidents and collaborating with engineering to harden platform defenses to combat abuse campaigns.
• Experience working on an AI native development team maintaining teams of agents and acting as a code reviewer and experience abstracting your role away from writing code for most cases.

About the team

Trust and Safety is a global team tasked with keeping abusive behaviors off of GitLab.com. The team relies on automations, LLM aided anomaly detections, and user behavior analysis to proactively detect and prevent abuse on the Gitlab platform. The Trust and Safety team closely collaborates with peer teams within Security Operations, including Security Incident Response, Signals Engineering, Threat Intelligence, and the Red Team.

United States Salary Range

$139,200—$196,000 USD

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

• 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

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.

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