The opportunity
The Security Factory: Code Security team builds GitLab's code-level security scanning capabilities, spanning static application security testing and dependency scanning. We help developers find and fix security issues in both the code they write and the open source components they depend on, as early as possible.
What you'll do
Act as the directly responsible individual (DRI) for team initiatives from: design through delivery, shipping with minimal guidance in partnership with the technical lead
Bring systems built by one engineer to team ownership through documentation, tests, and shared review
Design and ship analyzers that pair deterministic analysis capabilities with: AI-driven analysis, and build the evaluation harnesses that measure their false positives and missed findings against benchmark applications with known vulnerabilities, raising the bar for what counts as a trustworthy result. That includes detection rules mapped to CWE and the test fixtures that prove they work.
Package those analyzers for every place GitLab runs them, including CI jobs,: AI agent workflows, and command-line tools, with findings reported in GitLab's standard security report formats
Design and ship the manifest, lockfile, and SBOM parsing that tells the: static analysis engine what a project depends on, and extend it to new ecosystems and formats
Ship features across the automated remediation service that turns security: advisories into dependency update merge requests, from sandboxed updates to merge request creation
What they're looking for
- Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity, actively seek out: difficult impediments affecting the whole team, and advocate for improvements to quality, security, and performance with Product Management, Engineering stakeholders such as Frontend and UX, and partner teams such as Code Scanning and Composition Analysis
- Mentor Intermediate engineers through code review and pairing, and maintain: our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices through review
- Participate in on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product: operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues
- Experience building your own LLM tooling, such as a harness, an agent: pipeline, or evaluations, with the judgment to know when output is trustworthy and when it isn't
