Backend Engineer at GitLab

Job Description: Backend Engineer

Intermediate Secure: Dynamic Analysis

Remote

The GitLab DevSecOps platform (https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/devops-platform/) empowers 100,000 organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently. We are one of the world’s largest all-remote companies (https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/) with 2,000 team members and values (https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/values/) that foster a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute. Learn more about Life at GitLab (https://vimeo.com/778157354) .

An overview of this role

As a Backend Engineer in our Dynamic Analysis (https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/categories/#dynamic-analysis-group) group, you’ll play a key role in maturing our DAST (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/application_security/dast/) and API Security (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/application_security/api_security_testing/) offerings. Your work will help customers identify critical threats such as cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and cross-site request forgery, enabling development and security teams to collaborate more efficiently as they discover security risks which could be exploited in the applications they create.

Some examples of our projects:

• Dynamic Application Security Testing (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/application_security/dast/)
• API Security (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/application_security/api_security_testing/)

What You’ll Do

• Play a key role in improving the maturity of our browser-based DAST and API Security tools.
• Work across a range of languages and frameworks including C#, Go, Python, and others as needed.
• Solve interesting technical problems with your team, such as building API discovery features using a blend of AI and static analysis, improving our high performance web application spider, or writing rules to detect latent security risks.

What You’ll Bring

• Significant professional experience with C#.
• Desire to grow your skills in C# and Golang.
• Prior experience building test automation tools or developing website crawlers.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.

About the team

The Dynamic Analysis group at GitLab is charged with developing solutions which perform Dynamic Analysis Software Testing (DAST) (https://about.gitlab.com/direction/secure/dynamic-analysis/dast/) and Fuzzing.DAST has historically been the domain of security teams, rather than developers. Many organizational security teams are small and are not integrated into development teams, so they lack the resources to test applications for vulnerabilities before releasing them to a production environment. Discovering vulnerabilities in production or late in the development process is expensive and creates unnecessary risk for both the organization and the users of the application. GitLab DAST is designed to be managed by developers and run against a pre-production staging server, mitigating the risk of releasing vulnerable software to production.

Thanks to our Transparency (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency) value, you can see what we are working on in our Team (https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/sec/secure/dynamic-analysis/) page. You can even see our roadmap (https://about.gitlab.com/direction/secure/dynamic-analysis/) here.

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/)
• All remote (https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/) , asynchronous (https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/asynchronous/) work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/paid-time-off/)
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/stock-options/)
• Growth and development budget (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/#growth-and-development-benefit)
• Parental leave (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/#parental-leave)
• Home office (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/finance/procurement/office-equipment-supplies/) 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 (https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/#examples-of-select-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.

_The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our_ _benefits (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/)_ _and_ _equity (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/stock-options/)_ _. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary._

California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC pay range

$98,000-$210,000USD

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