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An overview of this role
You will engineer security improvements to the GitLab product, build and maintain the tools we use to detect and respond to emerging threats in efficient and scalable ways, respond to security incidents and drive them to resolution, and develop and deploy preventative security measures for the GitLab organization and GitLab.
com. Successful Security Engineers thrive in high-pressure environments, remain calm, follow prepared runbooks and think critically.
Intermediate Security Engineers will learn how to think like an attacker and defender, and will learn proactive and preventative security measures to keep GitLab and its users' data safe in an ever-changing threat landscape.
Find out more about the Security Operations team and responsibilities here :
- Incident Response
- Trust and Safety
- Red Team
What you’ll do
- Participate in the Security Operations on-call rotation
- Contribute security improvements by identifying areas of maturation and build solutions to meet these needs
- Identify, Detect, and Respond to cyber security related incidents through the full incident life cycle
- Participate in collaboration with other GitLab organizations to effectively identify gaps, build new capabilities, and work through technical projects
- Create high-value, efficient detection and response capabilities, and fine-tune existing alerts
- Resolve automation gaps and create efficient, automated processes
- Create simple documentation such as runbooks and procedures
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA), lessons-learned and incident reviews
What you’ll bring
- Python and / or development skills with a passion for security
- A strong interest in incident response processes, and aptitude for learning how to lead incidents independently
- A passion for technical documentation
- Proficiency with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and / or AWS
- Experience with using SIEM / security logging tools, such as Splunk or Devo
- Interest in handling cybersecurity related incidents
- Interest in proactive hunting based and threat intelligence
- Interest in conducting forensic analysis of infected hosts (with a focus on cloud forensics)
- Meet the requirement of being a US Citizen / Permanent US Resident
About the team
Security Operations is a globally distributed team of engineers split across 3 core regions; AMER, APAC and EMEA, and is at the forefront of security events that impact both GitLab.
com and GitLab. We are both reactive and proactive, leading security investigations, incident response support and response resolution, through to cyber threat analysis and detection and response engineering.
Even though we’re a global team, we work together in a cross-regional manner and have automation and processes to facilitate collaboration when resolving incidents, handovers, and general collaboration for project work as well.
How GitLab will support you
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- All remote, asynchronous work environment
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and development budget
- Parental leave
- Home office 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 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 and equity. 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 $103,600 $222,000 USD
Country Hiring Guidelines : GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements.
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