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Senior Software Security Engineer
ICT
Company shared salary
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Market rate
8,333 GBP–15,000 GBP/mo (99,996 GBP–180,000 GBP/yr)
Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).
About the Company
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. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. Fortune 500 is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. You will engineer security improvements to the GitLab product as well as building and maintaining the tools we use to detect and prevent abuse on our SaaS platforms. A strong software engineering background with experience in large Ruby/Rails codebases is required. As a senior engineer on the Trust and Safety team, you will predictively identify abuse patterns and trends and build anomaly detection and prevention systems to mitigate abusive users and their activities. This role is an ideal fit for candidates with software engineering backgrounds interested in moving into security engineering. Formal security engineering experience
Requirements
- ● Strong software development skills with experience in Ruby/Rails
- ● Experience working on distributed applications with large codebases and deployed in cloud environments strongly preferred
- ● Passion/desire to proactivity develop security engineering skills
- ● Comfortable working in an all remote environment where results and impact matter above hours worked
- ● Strong experience with cloud native development (Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or AWS)
- ● Interest in "thinking like a hacker" and defending against attacks with an "automation first" mindset
- ● Interest in handling trust and safety security incidents and collaborating with engineering to harden platform defenses to combat abuse campaigns
- ● Experience working on an AI native development team maintaining teams of agents and acting as a code reviewer and experience abstracting your role away from writing code for most cases.
- ● Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- ● Flexible Paid Time Off
- ● Team Member Resource Groups
- ● Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- ● Growth and Development Fund
- ● Parental Leave
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