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AN OVERVIEW OF THIS ROLE:

Help us build the future of secure and easy to manage access at GitLab. Whether it’s a simple user and password based login, enhancing our access token strategy or driving consolidation of authorization checks that manage access to thousands of resources, as a Senior Backend Engineer on our team, you’ll play a key role in the implementation of various authentication strategies and improving access management for our users.
Your role will also involve building new authentication mechanisms from ground up such as support for Passkeys and passwordless authentication while helping keep GitLab and its customers secure by robust access management tooling and addressing vulnerabilities on existing features reported via our HackerOne program.
Authentication group works across many core components that are used by not only external users but also by the rest of the GitLab teams, allowing you to make a direct impact on the GitLab product.

Some of our example projects:

• Enterprise user management and controls
• Secure automation improvements via Service accounts
• Transparent credential management through Credentials Inventory
• Composite Identities to merge machine and human authorization for AI
• Token management tooling
• SAML, LDAP, OIDC and SCIM enhancements for automated user provisioning and SSO.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Contribute to the overall direction of the team and play a direct part in driving future roadmap direction of a secure and scalable authentication solution for GitLab.
• Contribute to implementation and expanding of various authentication strategies into our product.
• Bolster security posture of our users and organizations by helping develop fine grained access control and frictionless user management.
• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions.
• Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with moderate guidance and support from other team members.
• Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Improve the engineering projects at GitLab via the maintainer trainee program at your own comfortable pace, while striving to become a project maintainer.