Context

GitGuardian is a global pre-Series C cybersecurity scale-up.

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 👀. 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!

We are looking for a Vice President of Engineering, to manage the entire engineering team of the company and be part of the Executive Committee, to help GitGuardian reach the next levels of its journey!

Mission

As a VP of Engineering, you will report directly to Eric Fourrier (CEO & co-founder).

Your principal missions will be to guarantee the good technical execution of the product vision and scalability, especially with our next product launches, while helping the GitGuardian engineering team to grow and make the best technical decisions, in a fast paced and very competitive environment.

You will also be a member of the Executive Committee (ExCom).

• 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 high ambitions.
• Accompany the tech managers in their daily work to help them increase their skills and autonomy in their area of responsibility.
• Be involved in the team's recruitments.
• Work closely with the product department to make strategic decisions that will allow the entire tech department to work efficiently in the right direction
• Contribute to our knowledge sharing culture (training, town hall, hackathon, strong documentation, ...).
• Choose the right tools to do software engineering in order to maximize our velocity.
• Maintain and optimize budgets to meet our goals.

Our stack

• Backend: Python (Django), Go
• Frontend: JavaScript (React), TypeScript, React Query, Jest
• Deployment: Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm
• Cloud providers: AWS, OVH
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible

Requirements

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

• Significant experience building B2B SaaS products.
• At least one significant experience managing 80 to 120 engineers, in a scale-up environment: you have strong organizational and leadership skills, able to lead growing teams while maintaining a structured environment.
• Understanding of our technical stack and challenges: backend, frontend, modern infrastructure, security, machine learning.
• Communication and interpersonal skills, you are close to your teams.
• Dynamic and autonomous personality: you can drive a vision for the team and the company.
• Deep understanding of the startups dynamics and challenges.

Why joining us?

• 💰 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

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 recruiter

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

2. Interview with Eric (CEO, co-founder)

To evaluate your skills for the position, project yourself into the role, present you the vision, and to make sure you would be able to succeed in the following steps of the recruitment process.

3. Technical interviews with team members (Engineering Managers)

To evaluate your technical skills, know more about yourself, and introduce you the team: missions, rituals, seniority level.

4. Interview with Executive Committee members

To meet the team you will be closely working with.

5. Final interview with a VC

Because this position is very impactful and strategic to us, every ExCom members gets to see one of our investors.

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.

Team

Engineering

Locations

Paris

Remote status

Hybrid Remote

Employment type

Full-time

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