DevSecOps Blueprint: from Vulnerability Management and Security-by-Design to Pipeline Integrity
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 teams have developed a source code security platform for the DevOps generation. Our solutions are already used by more than 400K 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.
- 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!
- Fluency in English.
- You are an expert in Python with solid experience in Django and large monolithic codebases.
- You are known for mentoring others and improving codebases.
- You are an expert in web application development, Unix/Linux environments, and distributed and parallel systems.
- You have expert-level knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience working in security-focused environments, particularly with companies adhering to compliance standards such as SOC 1, SOC 2, and ISO certifications, with a strong understanding of regulatory requirements and auditing processes.
- Like us, you have a dynamic and proactive personality and are always willing to help your teammates.
- You can operate effectively and autonomously across multiple teams and navigate technical ambiguity with only high-level direction.
- Strong mentorship experience where you coached more junior members to grow technically.
- Proven problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and analytically.
- Proven communication and interpersonal skills, you have a track record of effectively leading technical initiatives and collaborating with cross-functional teams in an organisation of at least one hundred people.
- 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.
- 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 get 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 400k developers across the globe.
- 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. Team interview / Interview with your future manager
To know more about yourself and your achievements, and present to you the team.
3. Technical test / Business case
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.
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.
We invite you to have a look at our Glassdoor profile for transparent reviews from our previous and current employees.
GitGuardian is the code security platform for the DevOps generation.
With automated secrets detection and remediation, our platform enables Dev, Sec, and Ops to advance together towards the Secure Software Development Lifecycle.