Senior Security Logging Engineer

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An Overview of This Role

The Security Team is responsible for the internal security of GitLab, GitLab.com services, and actively contribute to the security of the open source and enterprise editions of the GitLab product.  Security Engineers engage with partner teams across GitLab to solve common goals and encourage good security practices.

Security Operations Engineers are the firefighters of the GitLab Security Team. As a Security Engineer in Operations focusing on security log engineering, your daily duties will include log analysis, log collection and filtering, tooling and automation development, as well as contributing to strategic improvements to the GitLab products and GitLab.com services. Successful Security Engineers thrive in high-stress environments and can think like both an attacker and defender, have the ability to engage with and mentor more junior Security Engineers, and can help come up with proactive and preventative security measures to keep GitLab and its user’s data safe.

What you'll do

• Be part of the architectural direction, administration, maintenance, documentation, and oversight of the Security information and event management (SIEM) solution.
• Create and maintain integrations and solutions for the log collection, aggregation, indexing, search, alerting.
• Build and maintain Fluentd based log filtering pipelines.
• Manage implementation, enhancement and adoption of the solutions built by the team into operations.
• Utilize log ingestion platform for security analytics and identification of tactics, techniques and patterns of attackers.
• Collect and review security logs from systems including Cloud Providers, GitLab, OS, G-Suite, OKTA, IDS, etc.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies, standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to the creation of runbooks.
• Perform log analysis and review in support of Security Operations.
• Build security tools that enable the GitLab Security Team to operate at speed and scale.

What you'll bring

• At least 5 years of technical experience in information security with a focus on security log analysis, incident response, SOC or security engineering. 
• Experience with Devo and Splunk SIEM Technologies.
• Experience with log analysis systems.
• Engineer, not an analyst mindset.
• In-depth knowledge of Linux tools/architecture and logging systems.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, and/or Azure.
• Experience with one or more programming languages  (Ruby on Rails, Go, PHP and/or Python).
• Experience deploying and maintaining log filtering technologies such as Fluentd or Cribl.

About the team

Security Operations is a globally distributed team of engineers split across 3 core regions; AMER, APAC and EMEA, and is at the forefront of security events that impact both GitLab.com and GitLab. We are both reactive and proactive, leading security investigations, incident response support and response resolution, through to cyber threat analysis and detection and response engineering. Even though we’re a global team, we work together in a cross-regional manner and have automation and processes to facilitate collaboration when resolving incidents, handovers, and general collaboration for project work as well.

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget 
• Parental leave 
• Home office support

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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