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As a member of the Secret Detection team, you'll be at the forefront of protecting sensitive data by creating specialized tools that prevent, detect, and remediate leaked secrets in code. Our team focuses on the complete secret management lifecycle - from push protection to pipeline-based scanning, providing automated remediation workflows and audit trails when necessary. We’re passionate about embedding security into the development process seamlessly, allowing developers to focus on innovation while we handle security concerns proactively.
You'll help developers safeguard their credentials, API keys, and other sensitive information by building sophisticated detection patterns, reducing false positives, and creating seamless remediation paths when secrets are discovered. Your work will enable organizations to quickly identify exposed secrets, understand their impact, and efficiently revoke and rotate compromised credentials.
Your impact will be significant and far-reaching, as our solutions protect both GitLab's ecosystem and the sensitive data of thousands of organizations worldwide, preventing costly data breaches before they happen.
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About the team
GitLab’s Secret Detection team is responsible for the Secret Detection feature category. We want to help developers write better code and worry less about common security mistakes. We do this by helping developers easily identify common security issues as code is being contributed, and mitigate these issues proactively.
We work closely with the larger GitLab security product suite while maintaining our specialized focus on the unique challenges of secret detection. Our technical stack spans Rails and Go backends, Vue.js frontends, and custom parsing engines that enable efficient and accurate secret identification.
We're committed to making sophisticated security tooling accessible to developers of all skill levels. We'd like to continue to expand our capabilities across these workflows, while also continuously improving the result quality across all types of findings our security tools are responsible for detecting. We balance security best practices with practical developer experience to ensure protection doesn't come at the cost of productivity.
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Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.