Intermediate Software Engineer

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. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

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An overview of this role

As an Intermediate Software Engineer in GitLab's Security section, you'll contribute to the data layer behind our vulnerability and dependency management capabilities. You'll design and develop well-scoped features within the systems that ingest, store, index, and query security report data, including integrations with key third-party systems. With a strong focus on PostgreSQL and scalable backend design, your work will support security features delivered by teams across GitLab.

You'll work with clear context and strong support from the Senior Software Engineers and Staff Software Engineers around you. You'll stay hands-on across GitLab's Ruby on Rails application and newer services while building depth in PostgreSQL and a specialized security domain. Over time, you'll grow toward owning larger and more ambiguous pieces of work.

• Design, develop, and ship well-scoped features within the systems that ingest, store, index, and query security report data, improving data-ingestion reliability and query performance as measured by defined reliability and query-performance metrics.

• Work on the PostgreSQL data layer that supports vulnerability and dependency management, developing your database skills alongside engineers with deep expertise.

• Build and improve systems using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL, and contribute to newer services using technologies such as Go or Rust as the team expands beyond the monolith.

• Contribute to integrations with key third-party security systems.

• Participate in technical design discussions and code reviews, asking questions early and raising constraints as you find them.

• Collaborate with product and engineering partners on the details of your deliverables.

• Deliver iteratively within GitLab's monthly release cycle and communicate progress clearly.

• Apply a security mindset when designing systems, including considering how GitLab identifies and handles malicious or vulnerable software packages.

• Professional backend engineering experience shipping features to production as part of a collaborative team.

• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, including indexes, query plans, and schema design, and an interest in developing this into a specialization.

• Professional