Context

GitGuardian is a global post-Series B cybersecurity scale-up.

Among our early investors who saw our market value proposition, are the co-founder of GitHub, Scott Chacon, along with Solomon Hykes, Docker's co-founder. American and European top-tier VC firms have also invested in GitGuardian.

GitGuardian leads the way in Non-Human Identity security, offering end-to-end solutions from secrets detection in code, productivity tools and environments to strong remediation, observability and proactive prevention of leaks. Our solutions are already used by more than 600K developers worldwide!

Mission

Staff engineers are part of tribes and are managed by engineering managers (EMs). Weekly meetings are held to track the progress of transverse projects.

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of complex technical solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Drive architectural decisions, technical strategy, and best practices across the engineering organization.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and excellence.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define requirements and deliver innovative solutions that address customer needs.
• Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
• Identify technical challenges and proactively propose solutions to address them.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies, trends, and best practices in software engineering and apply them to enhance our products and processes.
• Do hands-on software development.
• Maintain and ensure an excellent quality of code and healthy codebase.
• Participate in the growth of our engineering teams! We are growing fast and we need you to support our continued growth in 2025.

Our technical stack includes mostly Python/Django, Go, Celery RabbitMQ for backend; PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch for databases; React/Typescript for frontend; Rust for CLIs, and Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS or OVH for infrastructure.

Requirements

If you think you match at least 70% of these criteria, please apply!

Leadership and Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Proven track record of leading technical initiatives in organizations of 70 to 100+ people.
• You have a track record of effectively leading technical initiatives and collaborating with cross-functional teams in an organization of at least one hundred people.
• Strong background in fostering cross-functional skills across engineering teams.
• Fluency in English

• You are an expert in Python with solid experience in Django and large monolithic codebases.
• Experience working with large monolithic codebases transitioning to modular architectures.
• Experience with performance optimization and scalability challenges in monolithic codebases and relational databases.
• You are an expert in web application development, Unix/Linux environments, and distributed and parallel systems.

 Cloud and Containerization Knowledge

• You have expert-level knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Security and Compliance Experience

• Experience working in security-focused environments, particularly with companies adhering to compliance standards such as SOC 1, SOC 2, and ISO certifications.

Bonus points

• You like building tools for developers
  
• You have experience building security products
• You’re eager to conference or meet-up speaking inside or outside the company
• You don’t hard code API keys in your code

Benefits

• 💰 Package that includes stock-options
• 🍜 Lunch voucher (Swile)
• 💻 Up to €300 to improve your home office set-up
• 🌴 Yearly holiday allowance
• 🤝 Referral bonus of 4000€ for any new Guardian we might hire thanks to you
• 🎡 Team building: monthly activities for the whole company + dedicated quarterly budget for every employee
• 🐕 Pet-friendly offices, some Guardians gets to bring their dogs from time to time
• 🏥 Non-charged health insurance for children (Sidecare)

And also...

• 🏡 Remote policy: at least 2 days/week at the office for people living in Île-de-France, at least 3 days/month for people living elsewhere in France
• 👊 Working on a meaningful product, we already helped more than 400k developers across the globe
• 📈 A robust engineering culture, 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 and a strong impact on the company development

Recruitment process

At GitGuardian, we are committed to building a diverse, equitable 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. Video call with a Talent Acquisition team member

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

2.  Interview with your Jérémy (Chief Technical Officer) and Eric (Engineering Manager)

To know more about yourself and your achievements, and present to you the team.

3. Technical test 

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

4. Final interview with Eric (CEO)

To detail our company’s vision and ambitions for the next couple of years.

Curious to know more about us ?

Products

• Want to go even further? Check out our public roadmap!
• Check out the State of Secrets Sprawl Report to understand our mission and the industry.
• Mackenzie (DevRel) will tell you about how GitGuardian works in this video!
• Our solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers in all industries and GitGuardian platform 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.
• More than 80% of our customers are in the United States.
• Many F500 companies use GitGuardian's platform.

People

• The Guardians are knowledgeable, committed, serious, aligned with the company’s mission, and true team players: always willing to help each other grow our skill sets!
• The team is diverse and we hail from more than 20 different countries.
• We are also agile, remote-friendly, and fun people to work with.