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Role Overview As a Senior Software Security Engineer on the Trust and Safety team, you will engineer security improvements to the GitLab product, build and maintain tools to detect and prevent abuse, and collaborate with peer engineering teams to deliver safety improvements. The team relies on automations, LLM aided anomaly detections, and user behavior analysis to proactively detect and prevent abuse on the GitLab platform. What You Will Do Maintain core abuse prevention systems, build new abuse detection rules, improve and expand agentic AI capabilities, lead collaboration with peer engineering teams, resolve automation gaps, create efficient automated processes, and create and maintain documentation. Why It Might Be a Fit This role is an ideal fit for candidates with software engineering backgrounds interested in moving into security engineering. You will have the opportunity to develop security engineering skills, work in an all-remote environment, and collaborate with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Requirements Strong software development skills with experience in Ruby/Rails Experience working on distributed applications with large codebases and deployed in cloud environments Passion/desire to proactively develop security engineering skills Comfortable working in an all-remote environment where results and impact matter above hours worked Strong experience with cloud native development (Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or AWS) Interest in ‘thinking like a hacker’ and defending against attacks with an ‘automation first’ mindset Experience working on an AI native development team maintaining teams of agents and acting as a code reviewer and experience abstracting your role away from writing code for most cases Benefits Flexible Paid Time Off Team Member Resource Groups Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan Growth and Development Fund Parental Leave

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