What would you work on ?

Context

Our products are a set of tools that scan GitHub public activity and git private repositories.

They are used by different teams: Software Development and Ops teams, Application Security, Threat Response and the buying decision comes from CISOs / CTOs / Directors of Security.

That’s why developing our software is a key responsibility within our organization, your work will matter and will be taken seriously !

The existing team

You will join a 40 Engineers team, organized in 3 tribes. Each tribe includes development squads (with a Tech Lead, Backend & Fullstack Engineers, QA, PM).

You will be managed by a Lead Software Engineer.

Missions

• Doing hands-on software development
• Working closely with other highly-skilled developers
• Working with an agile methodology with your Product Manager and your Lead Developer on 2 weeks sprints releases
• Maintaining and ensuring an excellent quality of developed code
• Participating in the growth of our technical teams! We are growing from 35 to 70 developers to support our growth in 2023.

Depending on your preferences and the team you will integrate your mission may be vary:

• Backend web developer, private and public api
• Full-stack python / react to work on user facing dashboards
• Backend / SRE, working on on premise solution for big tech
• R&D to analyze the performance of our algorithms in specific cases, suggest and implement improvements
• R&D to develop our next generation of code security scanners from scratch to production

Our stack

• Backend: Python (Django), Go
• Frontend: JavaScript (React), TypeScript, React Query, Jest
• DB: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB
• Observability: Elastic Stack, Sentry, Grafana, Datadog
• Deployment: Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm
• Cloud providers: AWS, OVH
• Message brokering: RabbitMQ, Redis
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
• CI/CD: GitLab, ArgoCD
• Secrets management: Vault

More about you

If you think you are only matching 70% to 80% of these criterias, please send us your resume !
And if you still have some questions before applying, you can directly write to us at : careers@gitguardian.com

• You have a degree in engineering, computer science or similar technical field,
• You have at least 3 years of web software development experience, with strong Python & ReactJS skills,
• You are experienced working with the following : web application development, Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems.
• Like us, you have a dynamic and proactive personality, always willing to help your colleagues

Why should you join us?

• 💰 Attractive package that includes stock-options
• 🏡 Remote-friendly environment: up to 3 days/week for people living in Île-de-France, (almost) full-remote policy for people living elsewhere in France.
• 💻 Home office allowance to improve your set-up at home, and the latest technology equipment
• 🌴 Yearly holiday allowance
• 🤝 Referral bonus of 4000€ for any new Guardians we might hire thanks to you
• 🍺 Lots of team-building activities including 1 per month for the whole company
• 🐕 Pet-friendly offices, every Guardian gets to bring their dogs
  
  
• 👊 Working on a meaningful product, we already helped more than 200k developers!
• 📈 A strong engineering culture, see this page to discover our R&D projects
• 🚀 Many opportunities for career development in the long term
• 👫 Trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication
  

Recruitment process

At GitGuardian, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce.

We will ask for your gender on the application page to help us understand the diversity of our applicant pool and to track our progress in attracting and hiring a diverse workforce. The information is optional and will not be disclosed to the hiring manager or the interview team and will not be considered in the hiring process. We appreciate your willingness to share this with us so that we can continue to improve our diversity and inclusion efforts.

1 Visio call with a recruiter

To discover your professional project and evaluate if there could be a mutual match

1 technical test

To evaluate your skills for the position and project yourself into the role

1 Team interview / to meet the team and your future manager

To know more about yourself, present to you the team : missions, rituals, seniority level, and making sure you would be able to succeed in the following steps of the recruitment process

1 final interview with the CEO or the Engineering Manager

To explain to you our company’s vision and ambitions to the next couple of years, and make sure you are up for the position

Curious to know more about us ?

GitGuardian is a global post-series B cybersecurity startup; we've raised $44M by the end of 2021 with American and European investors including top-tier VC firms.

More than ever in 2023, we have a very solid business model with a fast-growing ARR, multi-year contracts and great customer retention rates.

Investors

• Among our early investors who saw our market value proposition, are the co-founder of GitHub, Scott Chacon, along with Docker co-founder / CTO Solomon Hykes 👀

Products

• 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 🔥

Clients

• 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.
• More than 80% of our customers are in the United States.

People

• The majority of the team is based in Paris and we are growing fast, and in a sustainable way, while maintaining our core values.
• The Guardians are very knowledgeable, committed, serious, aligned with the company’s mission, and true team players : always willing to help pairs grow their skills !
• The team is diverse, come from more than 12 different nationalities and speak English regularly.
• We are also very agile, remote-friendly, pet-friendly 🐕 in the office, and fun people to work with.