About GitGuardian

GitGuardian is a global post-Series B cybersecurity scale-up. The company is based in Paris, with 130 team members between France and the USA.

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!

About your team and your mission

GitGuardian is a tech company, as such, the engineering department is key to the success of the company. The main challenges we are solving include: scanning various data streams at scale to find secrets in them (scan >10M code patches, messages or images every day), developing our scout component that is deployed on our customers’ infrastructure to securely collect and map non-human identities, integrate ML models and capabilities in our product with an elegant UX.

We are looking for highly skilled software engineers to reinforce our 50+ engineers department and build the best secret security platform in the world.

Your main mission will be to:

• Write code on a day to day basis to make our product better.
• Own the delivery of some projects or features with your team. You collaborate with your PM and other engineers to come up with efficient and resilient implementations.
• Help to level up the overall engineering department’s by reviewing your peer’s code, mentoring more junior developers, pushing for code quality.
• Be involved in transverse discussions for engineering: this can be reviewing design that may impact your team’s perimeter, be involved in cross team discussions around our stack and tech decisions.

Our technical environment

Backend: Python with Django and Celery.
DB: PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
Frontend: React / Typescript
Deployment: Kubernetes, AWS

About you

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

Here's what we consider essential for success in this role:

• You have at least 5+ years of web software development experience, with a strong Python knowledge.
• You are experienced working with the following : web application development, task orchestration, distributed systems, managing big data flows.
• You have a dynamic and proactive personality. You’re always willing to help your colleagues.
• You are good at communicating your ideas (written or oral) in English and French. You adapt and can be high level, or deep dive into solutions.

The following skills would strengthen your application but aren't required:

• You are an expert with Django.
• You are familiar with Rust and have already worked on some projects with this language.
• You have a track record of working with a big monolithic code base, and you know some architecture best practices in such an environment.

The interview process

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

We will ask for your gender identity 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, equity 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. Technical interview with Engineers

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

3. Interview with your future manager

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

4. Final interview with an Executive Manager

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

Benefits

• 💰 Package that includes stock-options
• 🍜 Lunch voucher (Swile)
• 🏥 Non-charged health insurance for children (Sidecare / Generali)
• 💻 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 budget dedicated to each employee that you can spend as you wish, with colleagues (latest examples to date: star restaurant, karaoke, stand-up show, karting, ...)
• 🐕 Pet-friendly offices, some Guardians gets to bring their dogs from time to time

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 600k 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

More about GitGuardian!

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 70% 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.