Infrastructure Security Engineer (USA)

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As a member of the

Infrastructure Security Team

within the

Product Security Department

you will work with teams across GitLab to ensure that the components that comprise our cloud infrastructure are built with the resiliency and security expectations that our customers depend on to power their software factories.

We’re looking for an Intermediate Infrastructure Security Engineer to further our automation efforts in support of our

GitLab Dedicated for Government

product offering. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to tooling that operates our FedRAMP environment, identify and develop remediations for infrastructure vulnerabilities, and partner with more senior engineers to review upcoming project architectures to ensure that they are built to the rigorous standards we hold.

What You’ll Do In This Role

Support the Public Sector SRE team as a

stable counterpart

Identify and help mitigate security issues, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities related to GitLab’s cloud, container and Kubernetes infrastructure

Build tooling to increase our visibility into environments to expedite vulnerability detection

Own efforts securing GitLab's FedRAMP environment

Support other security teams as an Infrastructure SME

Document best practices and remediations to help engineers learn from common vulnerability types

Partner with senior engineers to review new architectures and projects and provide feedback cross-functionally

Fulfill the

Product Security Division Mission

of securing GitLab Infrastructure with our own product (“dogfooding”)

What You'll Bring

Proof of U.S. citizenship and residency

Hands-on experience with public cloud providers (ex. AWS, GCP, Azure)

Development experience with Ruby, Python, Go

Experience With Infrastructure-as-code (iac) Tools (ex. Terraform, Ansible, Chef)

Knowledge of the Linux operating system

Familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes)

An interest in Information Security

Demonstrated experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Proficiency to communicate over a text-based medium (Slack, GitLab Issues, Email) and can succinctly document technical details

Share our

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, and work in accordance with those values

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

$103,600

—

$185,000 USD

How GitLab will support you

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

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.

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