Mission

We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer (LDE) to help us build and lead a team of Data Engineers and Data Architects to ship high quality features on a predictable schedule, by reporting to the VP of Engineering.

By joining our team, you will take on the following responsibilities:

• Lead a team that is responsible for developing and maintaining large scale distributed software and a Data Warehouse (DWH) across public cloud platforms
• Participate in the design and implementation of new features to meet GitGuardian’s dynamic and evolving business needs
• Engage with internal users (Ops, Marketing, Sales…), product managers, senior tech-leads and senior management to define the team’s technical strategy and increase the efficiency and impact of the team
• Be able to understand business requests and needs, and translate them into data engineering tasks and projects.
• Mentor and upskill other team members on technical skills and career development, and foster a growing and collaborative culture for the team
• Help team members set ambitious goals and achieve them, and take ownership of sub-systems
• Support recruiting efforts in order to meet changing business needs and promote internal mobility
• Help define the software engineering wide OKRs and processes
• Ensure an inclusive and healthy engineering culture
  

Why should you join us?

As a post Series B startup, we are facing many exciting & strategic challenges and we are experiencing very rapid growth: our goal is to recruit +100 people in 2022! 

• 🌴 A remote-friendly environment up to 3 days / week
• 💸 An attractive package that includes stock-options
• 💻 The latest setup equipment including cool apps, tools and technologies
• 👊 Working to develop a meaningful product → we already helped more than 200k developers!
• 🍺 Lots of team-building activities
• 🚀 Many opportunities for career development in the long term
• 📈 A strong engineering culture
• 🐕 Pet-friendly offices → every Guardian gets to bring their dogs to the office and we love it!
• 👫 Lots of trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication

Preferred experience

• 4+ years of data engineering experience
• 1+ years of experience of leading and/or managing an engineering team with a track record of shipping high quality software
• Strong experience with Python
• Strong skills in SQL
• Clear, proactive communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to develop high-trust relationships with stakeholders
• Extensive experience building systems leveraging microservices or on purpose chosen monolithic architecture
• Familiarity with the use of some of the following tools: BI Tools (PowerBI, Tableau, MicroStrategy…), Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Kafka, Hadoop, Apache Pig, Spark, Hive, KSQLDB, Kafka Streams…
• Degree in engineering, computer science or similar technical field
• You like to build small scripts and CI pipelines (in Bash or Python) to improve the engineering efficiency of your team
• You’re a true team player, always willing to help your peers improve their skills
• You speak English fluently

Bonus points:

• Deep understanding of the startups dynamics and challenges, because we are expanding constantly!
• Have experienced strong team growth in a previous company
• Have experienced in developing a product for developers or DevOps or security team
• You want to build tools to secure the software development lifecycle :).
• You are a passionate Pythonista :)

About GitGuardian

GitGuardian is a global post series B cybersecurity startup, we raised $44M recently with American and European investors including top-tier VC firms.

Among some of the visionaries who saw this unique market value proposition, are the co-founder of GitHub, Scott Chacon, along with Docker co-founder and CTO Solomon Hykes.

We develop code security solutions for the DevOps generation and are a leader in the market of secrets detection & remediation.

Our solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers in all industries and GitGuardian Internal monitoring is the n°1 security app on the GitHub marketplace. GitGuardian helps organizations find exposed sensitive information, that could often lead to tens of millions of dollars in potential damage.

We work with some of the largest IT outsourcing companies, publicly listed companies like Talend or tech companies like Datadog.

Based in Paris we are a true citizen of the world with more than 80% of their customers in the United States.

The Guardians are young, passionate and aiming high! 🙌

Recruitment process 

• 1 interview with our HR recruiter
• 1 interview with the VP of engineering or the CTO
• 1 technical team interview