# Staff Software Engineer

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Bangalore, India
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GitLab is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead two important areas for GitLab Security: the data layer behind vulnerability and dependency management capabilities, and the move toward services outside the GitLab monolith.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll help design and develop systems that ingest, store, index, and query security report data, including integrations with key third-party systems. Your work will support security features delivered by teams across GitLab.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead large technical deliverables from initial problem definition through delivery

- Design and develop backend systems for vulnerability and dependency management

- Build and improve systems using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL

- Shape technical plans and help other engineers deliver effectively

- Work directly with product, design, frontend, and engineering partners

Requirements:

- Experience leading complex backend projects

- Strong PostgreSQL experience

- Strong professional experience with Ruby on Rails, Go, or Python

- Experience shaping delivery plans and guiding technical decisions

- Ability to collaborate with partners and explain technical trade-offs

Benefits:

- Benefits to support 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

## Skills

### Required
- Ruby on Rails
- PostgreSQL
- Go
- Python
- backend development
- security report data

### Nice to have
- vulnerability management
- dependency management
- modular service design

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