Intermediate Backend Engineer (RoR) - Security Risk Management: Platform Management

An overview of this role

As an Intermediate Backend Engineer on our next-generation Security Platform Management team, you will help build GitLab’s enterprise security solutions from the ground up. You’ll design and develop greenfield backend services that close competitive gaps and position GitLab as a single platform for enterprise security, directly shaping how thousands of organizations understand and manage their security posture at scale. Working closely with a distributed team of 8 engineers, a Product Manager, and a UX designer across the US, Israel, and India, you’ll own critical backend systems and APIs that power capabilities like a new Security Manager role system, asset inventory with posture sharing, logical asset gathering with statistics, and unified configuration for GitLab’s security tools.

Some examples of our projects:

• Building a new Security Manager role system to centralize and streamline security administration

• Creating assets inventory and posture sharing capabilities, including logical asset gathering and unified configuration for all GitLab security tools

What you’ll do

• Design and develop next-generation Security Platform Management capabilities that strengthen GitLab’s enterprise security offering

• Build and optimize scalable backend services and data models in Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL for large volumes of security data

• Develop and maintain robust REST and GraphQL APIs that power security workflows across the GitLab platform

• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Policies, and Security Insights teams to deliver cross-functional security features end to end

• Implement and refine unified configuration mechanisms for GitLab’s suite of security tools to simplify management at scale

• Work within focused, feature-specific squads to deliver high-impact, well-tested functionality with minimal context switching

• Contribute to technical design decisions, code reviews, and standards that shape the architecture of GitLab’s security platform

What you’ll bring

• Proficiency in backend development with Ruby on Rails, including building and maintaining production services

• Experience designing and optimizing PostgreSQL schemas and queries for large-scale data

• Experience building and maintaining REST and GraphQL APIs that integrate with complex products or platforms

• Familiarity with Git-based workflows and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), ideally using GitLab

• Knowledge of Elasticsearch and NoSQL database technologies, or interest in learning and applying them

• Experience working in collaborative, cross-functional teams with product management and design

• Ability to work autonomously in an all-remote, asynchronous environment while staying aligned with team goals

• Interest in security domains and in building scalable, reliable solutions for enterprise customers, with openness to transferable experience from related areas

About the team

The Security Platform Management team sits within GitLab’s Security Risk Management area and is responsible for building new platform capabilities that help enterprises understand, manage, and improve their security posture inside GitLab. Our team consists of 8 backend engineers, 1 Product Manager, and 1 UX designer distributed across the US, Israel, and India, and we collaborate asynchronously and organize into feature-specific squads to deliver focused outcomes. We own initiatives such as the new Security Manager role system, security assets inventory with posture sharing, logical asset gathering and statistics, and unified configuration for GitLab’s security tools. Our main opportunity is greenfield: we are designing and shipping net-new enterprise security solutions rather than maintaining legacy systems, and defining how large organizations use GitLab to secure applications at global scale.