Senior Software Engineer, SSCS : Authentication
GitLab · Posted Oct 15
DevSecOps platform, software version control, CI/CD pipeline, and AI-assisted development services
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About the role
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, and the Authentication team's mission is to empower GitLab system administrators with the toolkit they need to balance security and accessibility. The team builds authentication features across the Rails monolith and GATE, a new service for issuing and validating tokens and managing identities across GitLab.com SaaS, Self-Managed, Dedicated, and air-gapped environments. This Senior Backend Engineer role will design and implement token issuance, validation, and identity services in Go and Ruby, build authentication mechanisms such as Workload Identity Federation, and strengthen access management tooling and security.
What you will do
- Shape the roadmap for GATE and GitLab's authentication services with the team.
- Design and implement token issuance, validation, and identity services in Go and Ruby across the Rails monolith and GATE, including new authentication mechanisms such as Workload Identity Federation.
- Migrate authentication and token management paths from the monolith into GATE while maintaining reliability across all deployment models.
- Build authentication mechanisms from the ground up, such as Workload Identity Federation.
- Strengthen security for users and organizations through access management tooling and by addressing vulnerabilities reported through our HackerOne program.
- Define and improve standards for style, maintainability, and engineering practices in a high-scale environment, and advocate for them through code review.
- Communicate publicly about GitLab initiatives, projects, and contributions from people not working for GitLab Inc. Reflect GitLab's values in these communications.
- Ship moderately sized features and improvements with moderate guidance and support from other team members, and collaborate on larger projects, including the build-out of GATE.
- Participate in the maintainer trainee program at your own comfortable pace while working toward becoming a project maintainer.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Professional experience with Go and/or Ruby in scaling or mission-critical SaaS products.
- Familiarity with authentication and authorization technologies or techniques, such as OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SSO, SCIM, LDAP, JSON Web Tokens (JWTs), role-based access control (RBAC), or identity and access management (IAM).
- Knowledge of token systems, cryptographic signing, and key management.
- Experience building or contributing to a service from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
- Proficiency in written and verbal English, with the ability to communicate complex problems and solutions clearly in a remote, largely asynchronous work environment.
- Experience diagnosing, preventing, and resolving performance and optimization problems.
- Experience working in an iterative software development process, managing your work effectively, staying organized, and following through on priorities.
Benefits and support
- 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
About GitLab
GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, delivered as a single application that empowers development, security, and operations teams to ship software faster and more securely. Operating as one of the world's largest all-remote companies, GitLab integrates the entire software lifecycle from planning and source code management to CI/CD and automated security testing. Millions of users and thousands of organizations globally rely on GitLab to scale their development workflows and adopt agentic AI engineering.
- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 2375 employees
- Founded
- 2011
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $435M raised
- 2022-09-16Post IPOUndisclosed
- 2019-09-17Series E$268M
- 2018-09-19Series D$100M
- 2017-10-10Series C$20M
- 2016-03-15Series B$4M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Product and Marketing Officer
Chief Business and Legal Officer
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