Backend Engineer Authentication Security

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Join GitLab's Authentication team as an Intermediate Backend Engineer and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of secure, scalable, and user-friendly access management. You'll help build robust authentication solutions, enhance access control, and implement innovative authentication mechanisms, ensuring seamless and secure user experiences across the GitLab platform in a fully remote and collaborative environment.

Job Overview

As a Backend Engineer, you'll contribute to the design, development, and enhancement of authentication features and access management tools used by both external customers and internal teams. You'll work on mission-critical systems, addressing security vulnerabilities, and supporting enterprise-level user management solutions.

Key Responsibilities
  • Contribute to the direction and roadmap of GitLab's authentication solutions.
  • Implement and expand authentication strategies, including passwordless and passkey support.
  • Develop secure, fine-grained access control and user management features.
  • Identify and address vulnerabilities, improving the security posture for users and organizations.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable authentication systems.
  • Maintain code quality and advocate for best practices through code reviews.
  • Participate in the maintainer trainee program to advance engineering standards.
Required Skills & Qualifications
  • Professional experience with Ruby on Rails.
  • Background in scaling or mission-critical SaaS products.
  • Familiarity with authentication and authorization technologies (SAML, SSO, SCIM, LDAP, RBAC, IAM).
  • Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
  • Proven ability to diagnose and resolve performance and optimization issues.
  • Experience with agile, iterative software development processes.
  • Demonstrated ownership of projects from concept to production.
  • Self-motivated and organized, able to work independently in a remote environment.
  • Positive, solution-oriented mindset.

Job Type: Remote

Salary: Not Disclosed

Experience: Entry

Duration: 12 Months

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