Staff Backend Engineer, AST: Composition Analysis

What you’ll do:

• Implement complex features in dependency scanning and container scanning, shipping improvements that increase scan coverage, improve accuracy, and drive adoption of GitLab's SCA capabilities
• Solve novel technical problems in SCA, establishing reusable patterns that reduce delivery time and improve engineering effectiveness across the team
• Guide architectural and implementation decisions in collaboration with engineering managers, product managers, and peer staff engineers to improve scalability, reliability, and delivery outcomes across the team's SCA architecture

What you’ll bring:

• Hands-on experience in Software Composition Analysis and the ability to contribute to complex security features in dependency scanning and container scanning
• Deep hands-on expertise in building and evolving dependency scanning and container scanning capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to design solutions that balance complexity, performance, and maintainability

About the team:

• The Software Composition Analysis team is part of GitLab's Sec Engineering group, and we focus on building capabilities that help customers identify and manage risks in their software supply chain
• We work across areas including dependency scanning and container scanning, and we work closely with product, security, and adjacent engineering teams to close important feature gaps in GitLab's platform