Threat Intelligence Engineer

Threat intelligence engineers research and provide information about specific threats to help us protect from the types of attacks that could cause the most damage.

As a member of the security team at GitLab, you will be working towards raising the bar on security. We will achieve that by working and collaborating with cross-functional teams to provide guidance on security best practices.

The Security Team is responsible for leading and implementing the various initiatives that relate to improving GitLab’s security.

Job Grade

The Threat Intelligence Engineer is a grade 6.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze threat intelligence reports covering new threats, vulnerabilities, products, and research
• Conducts deep-level analysis of malware, including how it is developed, functions, and is employed
• Author threat intelligence reports, driven by our security operations team’s own incidents, analysis, and adversary engagements
• Evolve monitoring operations by extracting data from threat intelligence and create new content, signatures, and understanding of adversary TTPs
• Analyze event feeds and collected malware over long term to trend and correlate
• Investigate impact to customers to determine whether new detections or compromise notifications are necessary
• Capable of conducting threat research focused on nation state, criminal, or other malicious activities

Requirements

• You have a passion for security and open source
• You are a team player, and enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams
• You are a great communicator
• You employ a flexible and constructive approach when solving problems
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values
• Ability to use GitLab

Levels

Senior Threat Intelligence Engineer

Job Grade

The Senior Threat Intelligence Engineer is a grade 7.

Responsibilities

• Leverages security expertise in at least one specialty area
• Triages and handles/escalates security issues independently
• Conduct security architecture reviews and makes recommendations
• Great written and verbal communication skills
• Screen security candidates during hiring process

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A Senior Security Engineer may want to pursue the security engineering management track at this point. See Engineering Career Development for more detail.

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Staff Threat Intelligence Engineer

The Staff Security Engineer role extends the Senior Threat Intelligence Engineer role.

Job Grade

The Staff Threat Intelligence Engineer is a grade 8.

Responsibilities

• Recognized security expert in multiple specialty areas, with cross-functional team experience
• Make security architecture decisions
• Provide actionable and constructive feedback to cross-functional teams
• Implement security technical and process improvements
• Exquisite written and verbal communication skills
• Author technical security documents
• Author questions/processes for hiring and screening candidates
• Write public blog posts and represent GitLab as a speaker at security conferences

Hiring Process

Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. To learn more about someone who may be conducting the interview, find their job title on our team page.

• Qualified candidates receive a short questionnaire from our Recruiting team
• Selected candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute screening call with our Recruiting team
• Next, candidates will be invited to schedule an interview with Security Engineer
• Candidates will then be invited to schedule an interview with Director of Security
• Candidates will then be invited to schedule an additional interview with VP of Engineering
• Finally, candidates may be asked to interview with the CEO
• Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email

As always, the interviews and screening call will be conducted via a video call. See more details about our hiring process on the hiring handbook.

Career Ladder

For more details on the engineering career ladders, please review the engineering career development handbook page.

 

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About GitLab

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab. Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise, and Duo Workflow, customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members are encouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organisation.

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