Threat Research Engineer
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 Threat Research group maintains the GitLab Advisory Database, which powers GitLab's dependency scanning, and publishes its findings on the Security Labs blog. As a Threat Research Engineer, you will research emerging security threats and attack surfaces including AI coding agents, agent plugins, and package ecosystems, build AI-powered workflows and agents for research, analysis, and detection, and deploy and maintain the cloud-based systems behind GitLab's detection and advisory work.
What you will do
- Research new attack surfaces and threat vectors, including AI coding agents, agent plugins, and package ecosystems.
- Find and responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in open source projects and developer tools.
- Analyze software supply chain incidents and events.
- Build AI-powered workflows and agents that automate research, analysis, and detection.
- Build and maintain the cloud-based systems behind our detection and advisory work.
- Improve the quality and coverage of our vulnerability and malware advisories.
- Write up your findings as blog posts and present them at conferences.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Hands-on security experience in research, malware analysis, penetration testing, or security tooling, with an understanding of package ecosystems and software supply chain attacks.
- Both a developer mindset and an adversarial mindset: you can build systems and think about how to break them.
- Demonstrated experience using AI in real work, such as building with large language model (LLM) application programming interfaces (APIs) or agent frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, or agent software development kits (SDKs).
- Strong programming skills in Go or Python, with good software engineering practices, including testing, code review, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), and writing maintainable code.
- Experience deploying and running production services on a public cloud.
- The ability to map attack vectors, explain trade-offs, and use data to move experiments forward, balancing quality, speed, and customer outcomes.
- Clear writing for engineers and a general audience, and keeping up with security and AI industry trends.
- You don't need deep knowledge of compilers or static application security testing (SAST) engines. A high-level understanding is enough.
Preferred qualifications
- Helpful, but not required: Google Cloud Platform (GCP); Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) entries or published findings; research on AI agents, LLM applications, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers; blogs, talks, or open source security tools; Terraform or OpenTofu; databases or data pipelines at scale; reverse engineering.
Benefits and support
- 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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