Senior Backend Engineer, Secure: Static Analysis

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An overview of this role

As a part of the GitLab Secure: Static Analysis team, your role will center around enhancing the security of software development within GitLab. This dynamic team is committed to helping developers write better code and worry less about common security mistakes. We do this by helping developers easily identify common security issues as code is being contributed, and mitigate these issues proactively. 

You'll be working on innovative solutions and contributing to the development of cutting-edge security analysis tools. Your work will play a crucial role in securing GitLab's ecosystem and the software developed by its users.

Some examples of our projects: 

• Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
• Secret Detection
• Code Quality

What you’ll do  

• Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
• Conduct Code Review within our Code Review Guidelines and ensure community contributions receive a swift response.
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions
• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions.
• Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday and weekend and occasional night on-call rotations to assist in troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

What you’ll bring 

• Proven professional experience writing and testing quality code in Go
• A solid understanding of program analysis techniques (syntax and semantic analysis, data, and control flow analysis, etc.)
• At least 5 years experience in software engineering.
• Previous experience working on program analysis tools
• Knowledge of security concepts, vulnerabilities, mitigation techniques, and secure coding practices is preferred.
• Experience with Application Security and Ruby on Rails is a plus.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal -  sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization.
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.

About the team

The Static Analysis team is responsible for the SAST, Secret Detection,