# Senior Backend Engineer,  SSCS: Supply Chain

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Remote, India
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help build the core capabilities of its dedicated software supply chain security Add-On. This commercial offering helps organizations control what software enters their builds, verify the integrity of what they ship, and identify malicious packages before they reach production.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at GitLab, you will work on a small team with a high level of responsibility, making engineering choices in API design, testing, performance, and security that will shape how this product grows. You will collaborate with a Staff Backend Engineer on architecture and partner with other engineers to deliver secure, reliable features for enterprise customers with complex supply chain security needs.

Responsibilities:

- Design and implement backend features across the Add-On's software supply chain security surface

- Build and improve the package policy evaluation engine

- Develop artifact signing and verification workflows

- Create and evolve the configuration interfaces for enterprise security teams

- Integrate Add-On capabilities with GitLab's existing security policy framework

- Collaborate with adjacent teams on malicious package intelligence

- Write and maintain comprehensive RSpec and integration test coverage

- Review merge requests with a security-first mindset and implement solutions

Requirements:

- Proven backend engineering experience with production Ruby on Rails expertise

- Working knowledge of Go or a clear willingness and ability to ramp up quickly

- Solid API design skills, including experience with REST, GraphQL, and defining clear internal service boundaries

- Solid PostgreSQL fundamentals, including schema design, query optimization, and indexing strategies

- Experience with Redis for caching and distributed coordination patterns

- A security-aware engineering mindset

- Familiarity with software supply chain security concepts

Benefits:

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- Ruby on Rails
- Go
- API design
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Software supply chain security
- Security-aware engineering

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