Frontend Engineer, Defend at GitLab Inc.

The Defend Team is responsible for the defend features in the GitLab platform, and maps to the defend stage. You can learn more about our approach on the vision for defend . The features provided by the Defend Team are mostly present at the deployment level.

This team focuses on security defend features for GitLab (including web application firewall, threat detection, container security, network security, and vulnerability management).

What you can expect in a Frontend Engineer role at GitLab:

• You'll help improve the overall experience of our product through improving the quality of the Frontend features
• You’ll help identify areas of improvements in the code-base and help contribute to make it better
• You’ll work alongside the UX team, the Backend Engineering team and Product Managers to iterate on new features within the GitLab product.
• You’ll learn, collaborate and teach other Frontend Engineers. Everyone can contribute something new to the team regardless of how long they’ve been in the industry.
• You’ll fix prioritized issues from the issue tracker. These are typically bugs listed in a GitLab issue with an attached severity and priority label.
• You'll write high-quality code to complete scheduled direction issues assigned by your frontend engineering manager.
• You’ll contribute to and follow our workflow process, alongside the rest of the Frontend team and the GitLab community as a whole.

You Should Apply If

• You have prior experience building Frontend web applications
• Professional experience with VueJS or another modern JavaScript web framework (React, Angular, Ember, etc)
• You have a solid understanding in core web and browser concepts (eg. how does JavaScript handle asynchronous code)
• You have working knowledge of when and how to make your code scale effectively
• You are proactive in taking ownership of tasks and take them to completion
• You desire to learn and continually give and receive feedback effectively
• You have a solid understanding of CSS , semantic HTML and core JavaScript concepts .
• Our values of collaboration, results, efficiency, diversity, iteration, and transparency (CREDIT) resonate with you.
• You have a strong interest in security

Nice To Have

• You have experience contributing to open source-software
• You have experience optimizing code and look for ways to resolve performance issues
• Y ou have working knowledge of Ruby on Rails