Senior Software Security EngineerActive$196K

The opportunity

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation.

What you'll do

  • Trust and Safety

  • Maintain core abuse prevention systems and build new abuse detection rules to: identify and prevent evolving platform abuse such as spam, AI/token, SEO optimization/redirects and other financially motivated abuse campaigns.

  • Become a core maintainer for our in-house abuse platform (Ruby on Rails: monolith) and be comfortable supporting and building new features for the platform.

  • Improve and expand agentic AI capabilities in our abuse mitigation tools,: including improving multi agent reasoning decision patterns with a target to reduce HITL operational load.

  • Lead collaboration with peer engineering teams to deliver safety improvements for the GitLab product

  • Resolve automation gaps and create efficient, automated processes

What they're looking for

  • Create and maintain documentation such as runbooks and procedures
  • 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 proactivity develop security engineering skills