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Senior Backend Engineer (RoR), SSCS: Authorization

3 hours, 7 minutes ago
United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands
Full-time
Senior
Backend Engineer
Software Development
PostgreSQL Ruby on Rails
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Description

  • Implement fine-grained permission systems for Job Tokens, Personal Access Tokens, the GitLab Duo Agent Platform, and other authentication mechanisms across the GitLab platform.
  • Collaborate with Security, Authentication, Database, and Platform teams on authorization stack initiatives and implementation plans.
  • Solve complex performance challenges in authorization, including query optimization, caching strategies, and database decomposition, with a focus on PostgreSQL.
  • Design and evolve authorization systems that work across multiple deployment models and multi-tenant architectures while maintaining security and reliability.
  • Drive improvements to authorization security, maintainability, and developer experience through code review, documentation, and technical leadership.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions for authorization features with a long-term strategic view.
  • Mentor and support other engineers in authorization patterns, policy-based access control, and secure coding practices in a remote, asynchronous environment.

Requirements

  • Professional experience building and maintaining production applications with Ruby on Rails or similar backend frameworks.
  • Strong understanding of authorization models, including role-based access control, attribute-based access control, and fine-grained permission patterns.
  • Experience designing and optimizing high-scale backend systems, including PostgreSQL performance tuning, query optimization, and effective caching strategies.
  • Familiarity with or interest in policy-based authorization systems and modern policy languages such as Cedar or Rego.
  • Understanding of core security principles, including threat modeling, least-privilege access, and zero-trust architectures.
  • Experience working with distributed systems and service-to-service communication in a cloud or multi-tenant environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to own complex technical initiatives from design through production deployment in an asynchronous, remote setting.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, with openness to learning and applying transferable skills from adjacent domains or technologies.

Benefits

  • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being.
  • Flexible Paid Time Off.
  • Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Growth and Development Fund.
  • Parental leave.
  • Home office support.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.

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