# Threat Research Engineer

Job description: As a Threat Research Engineer at GitLab, you'll research emerging security threats and turn your findings into protection for GitLab customers. You'll investigate new attack surfaces, including AI coding agents, agent plugins, and package ecosystems, and build systems that help detect threats and improve vulnerability advisories. This is a full-stack role: you'll take an idea from the first research question to a working proof of concept, deploy it, and analyze the results yourself. Artificial intelligence (AI) is central to how we work. You'll use AI tools daily and build agentic workflows for research, analysis, and detection. What you'll do: Research new attack surfaces and threat vectors, including AI coding agents, agent plugins, and package ecosystems. Find and responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in open source projects and developer tools. Analyze software supply chain incidents and events. Build AI-powered workflows and agents that automate research, analysis, and detection. Build and maintain the cloud-based systems behind our detection and advisory work. Improve the quality and coverage of our vulnerability and malware advisories. Write up your findin

- **Id**: 3822700
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/gitlab-threat-research-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T17:35:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T06:04:30Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-06T06:04:30Z
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3620
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: DevOps & Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 15014
- **Name**: GitLab
- **Domain**: gitlab.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/gitlab>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 93
- **Open postings**: 22
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.273
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 50
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CVE** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GitLab** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **OpenTofu** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **npm** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **India** — Iso: IN; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T17:35:00Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-06T06:04:30Z

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