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- Strong development or scripting experience and skills. You're able to significantly and effectively contribute to the product and its security. Ruby and Ruby on Rails is a must.
- Be a subject matter expert (SME) of at least 2 technical areas impacting the security of the product.
### Distinguished Application Security Engineer
This position reports to the [Product Security Director](/job-families/security/security-leadership/) role at GitLab.
- Includes all [Staff level responsibilities listed](#staff-application-security-engineer-responsibilities).
- Drive the technical direction, roadmap, and [6-month architecture blueprints](/handbook/engineering/architecture/#architecture-at-gitlab) of the Application Security program.
- Drive the business value relation of metrics calculations for the Application Security program.
- Represent the Application Security team across and outside of GitLab as a subject matter expert in technology, development, and application security concepts.
- Work in a leveraged manner influencing other organizations and teams across GitLab with application security approaches and a focus on problem solving.