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Threat Research Engineer

Bengaluru, India (Remote)Estimated ₹5 - 45 LPA6 skills

This is our market estimate, based on AmbitionBox GitLab India Senior Software Engineer benchmark. It is not the employer's disclosed pay.

Skills & Stack

Security researchGoPythonLLM agentsCloudSupply chain security

About the Role

Threat research engineering at GitLab: investigate emerging threats, including AI agent ecosystems, and build detection. India-eligible, all-remote.

About GitLab

DevSecOps platform company with an all-remote team.

What You'll Do

2 items
  • 1Research new attack surfaces, including AI coding agents, agent plugins and package ecosystems, and disclose vulnerabilities responsibly.
  • 2Build AI-powered workflows and cloud systems that automate threat detection and improve vulnerability advisories.

What We're Looking For

  • Hands-on security experience in research, malware analysis, penetration testing or security tooling, plus package ecosystem knowledge.
  • Strong programming in Go or Python with testing, code review and CI/CD practices.
  • Demonstrated experience building with LLM APIs or agent frameworks, and production cloud deployment experience.

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