Intermediate Vulnerability Research Engineer, Application Security Testing: Vulnerability Research

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An overview of this role

You'll be at the forefront of our R&D efforts within our Engineering department in this role. You’ll be expected to focus on improving GitLab’s security detection capabilities in our Application Security Testing stage groups. This includes SAST, DAST, Secret Detection and Composition Analysis, and future products.

Vulnerability Research Engineers perform research to analyze software vulnerabilities, exploitation methods, track new vectors, discover novel methods and approaches in software security, and apply this knowledge to the security products and GitLab itself. 

What You’ll Do  

• Carry out research and come up with proofs of concepts that affect the security products and GitLab, including SAST, DAST, Secret Detection and Composition Analysis.
• Curate advisory databases for dependency scanning. This is a semi-automatic task that includes auditing/reviewing, editing existing and adding new advisories to the database while, at the same time, trying to automate repetitive tasks away as much as possible.
• Build/develop benchmarks to test the efficacy of scanning and detection products to constantly improve quality of results.
• Measure and Improve the efficacy of scanning and detection products over time.
• Write detailed technical reports.
• Assess security product output results and conduct root cause analysis to improve efficacy.
• Respond to internal and external customer inquiries on vulnerabilities and related topics.

What You’ll Bring 

• 3+ years of direct experience in developing and improving vulnerability detection products in the context of web security.
• Knowledge of the vulnerability management process.
• Knowledge of software composition analysis (SCA) and software supply chain ecosystems.
• Experience with source code analysis, static application security testing (SAST), and dynamic application security testing (DAST) along with benchmarking experience testing the efficacy of these products.
• Knowledge about compilers, compiler design and construction.
• Experience developing …