Intermediate Security Engineer, (Incident Response, Trust & Safety) - Remote, US

The GitLab DevSecOps platform empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently. We are one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with 2,000+ team members and values that foster a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

An overview of this role

You will engineer security improvements to the GitLab product, build and maintain the tools we use to detect and respond to emerging threats in efficient and scalable ways, respond to security incidents and drive them to resolution, and develop and deploy preventative security measures for the GitLab organization and GitLab.com. Successful Security Engineers thrive in high-pressure environments, remain calm, follow prepared runbooks and think critically. Intermediate Security Engineers will learn how to think like an attacker and defender, and will learn proactive and preventative security measures to keep GitLab and its user’s data safe in an ever-changing threat landscape.

Find out more about the Security Operations team and responsibilities here:

• Incident Response
• Trust and Safety
• SIEM Operations
• Red Team

What you’ll do  

• Participate in the Security Operations on-call rotation
• Contribute security improvements by submitting Ruby code to the GitLab product 
• Detect and respond to GitLab-related security incidents
• Respond to and mitigate trust and safety matters such as platform abuse, cryptomining, platform spam and abuse of terms of service
• Create high-value, efficient detection and response capabilities, and fine-tune existing alerts
• Resolve automation gaps and create efficient, automated processes
• Create simple documentation such as runbooks and procedures
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA), lessons-learned and incident reviews

What you’ll bring 

• Proof of U.S. citizenship and residency
• Ruby development skills with a passion for security, with some experience in Python …