# Threat Research Engineer, Security Factory: Threat Research

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Remote, Israel
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 272,000 - 408,000 PLN
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GitLab is seeking a Threat Research Engineer to join its Security Factory: Threat Research team remotely from Israel, Poland, or the United Kingdom.

As a Threat Research Engineer, you'll take ideas from initial questions to working proofs of concept, deploy them, and analyze the results. This full-stack role heavily incorporates AI into daily workflows. You'll build agentic workflows for research, analysis, and detection, utilizing AI tools daily to enhance efficiency.

Key responsibilities include:

- Researching new attack surfaces and threat vectors, including AI coding agents and package ecosystems.

- Identifying and responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities in open-source projects and developer tools.

- Analyzing software supply chain incidents and events.

- Developing AI-powered workflows and agents for automation.

- Building and maintaining cloud-based systems for detection and advisory work.

- Improving the quality and coverage of vulnerability and malware advisories.

- Presenting findings as blog posts and conference presentations.

- Participating in on-call or operational support as needed.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on security experience in research, malware analysis, or penetration testing, with a developer mindset and adversarial thinking. Proficiency in Go or Python, experience with AI tools, and strong software engineering practices are essential.

GitLab offers a supportive work environment with benefits including health, financial, and well-being support, flexible paid time off, equity compensation, and a growth and development fund.

The base salary range for this role is 272,000 - 408,000 PLN for residents of Poland.

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## Skills

### Required
- AI
- Go
- Python
- security research
- malware analysis
- penetration testing
- software engineering

### Nice to have
- published vulnerability findings
- security research on AI agents
- Google Cloud Platform experience
- infrastructure as code experience with Terraform or OpenTofu

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