Senior Security Incident Response Team Engineer

As members of GitLab's Security Operations sub department, the Security Incident Response Team detects, manages, and remediates security incidents across GitLab. Members of the Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) are the fire fighters of the GitLab Security department. SIRT works to create and maintain a safe and secure operating environment for the organization and its customers and responds to active security incidents. As a Security Engineer on SIRT you will build and maintain the tools we use to detect and respond to emerging threats in efficient and scalable ways, respond to security incidents and drive them to resolution, and develop and deploy preventative security measures for the GitLab organization and GitLab.com. Successful Security Engineers thrive in high-stress environments and can think like both an attacker and defender, engage with and mentor more junior Security Engineers, and can help come up with proactive and preventative security measures to keep GitLab and its user’s data safe in an ever changing threat landscape.

This position reports to the Manager, Security Incident Response Team.

The Senior Security Incident Response Team Engineer is a grade 7.

• Extends Security Incident Response Engineer responsibilities, plus;
• Detect and independently respond to security incidents across the organization or GitLab.com
• Conduct proactive threat hunting based on threat intel
• Perform forensic analysis of infected hosts independently
• Analyze network traffic and identify attacker activity
• Mentor other members of the Security Incident Response Team
• Build and maintain scalable log ingestion and analytics platforms and tooling
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and incident reviews

• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in web or cloud security engineering, log aggregation, and/or penetration testing
• A minimum of 2 years experience working with incident response
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Capability to build working relationships with key stakeholders
• Experience with operating system internals and hardening, web application and browser security, and monitoring and intrusion detection

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.

• Qualified candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute screening call with one of our Global Recruiters.
• Next, candidates will be invited to schedule an interview with Security Incident Response Team Manager
• Candidates will then be invited to schedule an interview with 2 SIRT peers, one of which will be a Senior
• Candidates will then be invited to schedule an interview with Director of Security Operations
• Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email

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Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.