Intermediate Security Engineer, Security Incident Response Team at GitLab

Role overview

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.

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As an Intermediate Security Engineer on GitLab's Security Incident Response Team (SIRT), you will be on the frontline of protecting both GitLab.com and GitLab the company from security threats. This role operates on a compressed 4-day work schedule, with a full-time week's hours condensed into four longer working days. Shifts run Sunday through Wednesday to provide 24/7/365 security coverage.

Your primary focus will be detecting and responding to security incidents during your scheduled shifts. You'll work extensively with our incident response automation tools to investigate, analyze, and resolve security events. You'll also have opportunities to contribute to our security tooling and automation, helping to improve our detection and response capabilities.

In this role, you'll develop expertise using our security infrastructure to monitor for threats, analyze potential incidents, and coordinate response efforts across teams. This position is ideal for someone who wants to grow their incident response skills while working within GitLab's established security framework. You'll learn to think both tactically and strategically about security, while getting hands-on experience handling real-world incidents.

Successful Security Engineers thrive in high-pressure environments, remaining calm while following prepared runbooks and thinking critically about security challenges. In this role, you will learn to think like both an attacker and defender, developing proactive and preventative security measures to keep GitLab and its users' data safe in our ever-changing threat landscape. Through hands-on experience and mentorship, you'll develop the skills needed to anticipate security risks, respond effectively to incidents, and contribute to GitLab's robust security posture.

Find out more about the Security Operations team and responsibilities here:

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Responsibilities

• Deliver technical work for security incident response engineering.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, security and customer-facing teams.
• Improve reliability, automation, testing, observability and documentation.
• Translate requirements into maintainable software and operational outcomes.

Qualifications

• Find out more about the Security Operations team and responsibilities here:
• Python programming skills or strong willingness to learn
• A passion for technical documentation
• Proactive approach to identifying and investigating security threats
• Interest in conducting forensic analysis of infected hosts
• 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. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.

Technology in this role

• Python: Find out more about the Security Operations team and responsibilities here: Python programming skills or strong willingness to learn A passion for technical documentation Proactive approach to identifying and investigating security threats Interest in conducting forensic .
• AWS: • Experience with cloud platforms (GCP and/or .
• GCP: • Experience with cloud platforms (GCP and/or .
• CAN: Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting .
• SIEM: • Experience with SIEM/security logging .

Benefits

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

About GitLab

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.

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