Staff Security Research Engineer
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GitLabDevSecOps
Remote, Canada; Remote, Israel; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, United StatesFull-TimeStaff
Salary168,000 - 238,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Required Skills
- PythonRubyTypeScriptGoRust
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in security research, penetration testing, or offensive security roles.
- Hands-on experience discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities.
- Subject matter expert (SME) in at least two technical areas impacting product security.
- Proficiency in one or more of Ruby, Go, Python, TypeScript, or Rust.
- Ability to read and analyze code across multiple languages and codebases.
- Understanding of AI attack vectors including prompt injection, agent manipulation, and workflow exploitation.
- Experience leading technical objectives in cross-functional teams.
- Excellent written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex topics clearly.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with creative thinking regarding attack scenarios.
Responsibilities
- Conduct security research in two or more specialty areas.
- Identify novel, systemic, and chained vulnerabilities in GitLab.
- Validate security vulnerabilities through hands-on testing and develop proof-of-concept exploits.
- Assess emerging industry vulnerability classes and drive systemic remediation.
- Conduct security research into GitLab's AI and agentic surfaces.
- Build tooling and automation that scales security research, including agent-assisted discovery.
- Research the security posture of integrated open source tools and dependencies.
- Mentor and advise other team members and contribute to the team roadmap.
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