Senior PSIRT Security Engineer

An overview of this role

The GitLab Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) analyzes and validates reports of vulnerabilities in GitLab products and services, collaborates with GitLab engineers and product teams to remediate and mitigate security vulnerabilities to protect customers, and drives continuous security improvement through sharing insights and lessons learned. The PSIRT also manages GitLab's Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure program.

What you'll do

• Reproduce, assess, and document vulnerabilities, perform variant hunting, and contribute to exploitability research on security issues reported in GitLab’s products and services.

• Support and consult with product and development teams on effective vulnerability remediation and mitigation.

• Independently validate vulnerability fixes prior to release.

• Support security release preparation activities.

• Automate vulnerability triage related tasks collaborate to mature team processes and documentation

What you’ll bring: 

• 5+ years of experience managing vulnerability triage, remediation, and disclosure in a software security context, such as through a PSIRT, bug bounty program, or security response team.

• Strong understanding, and effective communication of code security and how to detect and remediate various classes of security defects and logic vulnerabilities.

• Programming experience or scripting experience (Ruby, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, JavaScript, and/or Go preferred), and an ability to read and understand code for fix validation and root cause analysis purposes.

• Comfortable in shell scripting to automate recurring work or build PoC exploits 

• Experience performing Application Penetration Testing or Vulnerability Research / Bug Bounty Hunting. (Ability to discover and identify fixes for SQLi, XSS, CSRF, SSRF, authentication and authorization flaws, and other web-based security vulnerabilities is a plus).

• Understanding of common security vulnerabilities and security impact frameworks (e.g., OWASP Top 10, STRIDE) as well as common security frameworks and standards (CVE, CWE, CVSS, etc).

• Demonstrated ability to learn new technical concepts in cloud and web application security assessment.

• Flexible, effective, and inclusive communication skills that create clarity; you will collaborate with technical and non-technical audiences across multiple teams on security bug types and how to mitigate or remediate security issues. 

• Demonstrated critical and creative thinking, while also being an effective member of a team.

• You’re comfortable using Git, and have the ability to use GitLab effectively

• Experience with standard web application security tools such as BurpSuite.

• Flexible and constructive approach to problem solving that helps you navigate ambiguity and drive results.

• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment 

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. 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, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

United States Salary Range

$124,300—$222,000 USD