Mission

As a VP of Engineering at GitGuardian, you will report directly to the cofounder and CTO and your principal mission will be to guarantee the good technical execution of the product vision, while helping the GitGuardian engineering team to scale.

As a VP of Engineering at GitGuardian, you will :

• Manage and synchronize the various development teams to ensure that the roadmap is properly implemented, while respecting our acceptance criteria
• Bring structure and good processes in place to support our ambitions
• Accompany the tech managers in their daily work to help them increase their skills and autonomy in their area of responsibility
• In collaboration with HR, build the human growth strategy of the tech organization, involving managers in the definition of recruitment processes for their teams. We will have to recruit more than 30 engineers in the next 18 months.
• With your experience and excellent understanding of our ecosystem and market, you are able to make strategic decisions that will allow the entire tech department to work efficiently in the right direction
• Challenge the CTO in the contruction of the company's technical strategy
• Contribute to our knowledge sharing culture (formations, internal stackoverflow, technical documentation)
• Choose the right tools we are using to do software engineering in order to maximise our velocity and challenge the CTO about it
• Maintain and optimize budgets to meet our goals
• Participate to the CODIR meetings and discuss about company strategy
• We use Python for the backend with a little bit of Go and React and Typescript for the frontend.

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

• Degree in engineering
• Familiar with our technical stack
• Incredible problem solving abilities with a synthetic and analytical mindset
• Strong organizational and leadership skills.
• 3 to 5 years of former experience as a VP of Engineering in a scale-up environment for a B2B SaaS product
• Speak french & english fluently
• Very good communication and interpersonal skills, ability to anticipate human issues
• Very dynamic and autonomous personality
• Deep understanding of the startups dynamics and challenges
• You are familiar with SAAS products and agile release cycle
• Have experienced strong team growth in a previous company. You have scaled a team from 20 engineers to 50 and more

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 the CTO
• 1 interview with the CEO
• 1 interview with team members (Engineering Managers, Leads)
• 1 final interview with the investors