Staff Backend Engineer, AST: Composition Analysis

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and improve operational efficiency. The Staff Engineer on GitLab's Software Composition Analysis team will implement security features to help customers manage risks in their software supply chain, focusing on enhancing capabilities in dependency and container scanning.

Responsibilities:

• Implement complex features in dependency scanning and container scanning, shipping improvements that increase scan coverage, improve accuracy, and drive adoption of GitLab's SCA capabilities
• Solve novel technical problems in SCA, establishing reusable patterns that reduce delivery time and improve engineering effectiveness across the team
• Guide architectural and implementation decisions in collaboration with engineering managers, product managers, and peer staff engineers to improve scalability, reliability, and delivery outcomes across the team's SCA architecture
• Contribute code, design reviews, and technical mentorship that raise quality standards, improve maintainability, and strengthen performance across the codebase
• Collaborate across GitLab's security domain to align SCA work with related efforts in vulnerability management and adjacent product areas, accelerating delivery of shared roadmap goals and improving coordination across related security efforts
• Identify and resolve technical debt, prioritizing changes that improve team velocity, code health, and long-term maintainability across the team's core SCA services
• Translate product needs and customer feedback into technical solutions in partnership with product and security stakeholders, delivering features that address high-impact customer risks and advance shared roadmap goals

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience in Software Composition Analysis and the ability to contribute to complex security features in dependency scanning and container scanning
• Deep hands-on expertise in building and evolving dependency scanning and container scanning capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to design solutions that balance complexity, performance, and maintainability
• Expertise with backend technologies, particularly Go and/or Ruby on Rails, with ability to pick up new technologies quickly
• Ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs in SCA and security tooling, with proven success delivering maintainable solutions that help customers manage software supply chain risk
• Ability to work effectively in distributed, async-first teams across multiple time zones
• Experience explaining complex technical and security concepts to engineers and stakeholders