Staff Software Engineer
GitGuardian
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What would you work on ?
Context
GitGuardian offers an extensive code security platform. With a strong expertise in secrets detection in source code and other data sources, we also provide IaC scanning, SCA capabilities and offer a unique HoneyToken feature. GitGuardian also has a Public Monitoring offer to allow any company to monitor their developers activity on public GitHub and look for leaked credentials in this perimeter.
The products are used by different teams: Software Development, Ops, Application Security, Threat Response and the buying decision comes from CISOs / CTOs / Directors of Security.
- GitGuardian in few numbers:
- 2 PB of raw data in our data warehouse
- >15 millions documents scanned every day
- 10 millions of new secrets found in 2023
- 350k developers are using our products
That’s why developing our software is a key responsibility within our organization, your work will matter and will be taken seriously !
As a Staff Engineer and along with 5 fellow seasoned teammates, you will be a key member of our engineering team, responsible for providing technical leadership, driving architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable, high-performance solutions that meet our business objectives and exceed customer expectations.
Missions
- Staff engineers are part of tribes, 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 2024.
Our technical stack includes mostly Python/Django, Go, RabbitMQ for backend; PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch for databases; React/Typescript for frontend; and Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS or OVH for infrastructure.
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 :
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree preferred
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of designing and delivering scalable, high-performance systems
- You are experienced working with the following : web application development, Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Like us, you have a dynamic and proactive personality, always willing to help your teammates
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and analytically
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams
Bonus points
- You have prior experience in a leadership or mentoring role
- You like building tools for developers
- You have experience building security products
- You’re eager to conference or meetup speaking inside or outside the company
- You don’t hard code API keys in your code
Why should you join us ?
- 🌴 A remote-friendly environment up to 3 days / week for people living close to Paris, and have a full-remote policy for people living outside
- 💸 An attractive package that includes stock-options
- 🏄A yearly holiday allowance
- 💻A home office allowance to improve your set-up at home, and the latest technology equipment
- 💰A referral bonus of 4k€ for any new Guardians we might hire thanks to you
- 👊 Working on a meaningful product, we already helped more than 400k developers!
- 🍺 Lots of team-building activities including 1 per month for the whole company
- 🚀 Many opportunities for career development in the long term
- 📈 A strong engineering culture, see this page to discover some of our R&D projects
- 🐕 Pet-friendly offices, every Guardian gets to bring their dogs
- 👫 Trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication
Recruitment process
1 Visio call with a recruiter
To discover your professional project, present to you the team, and evaluate if there could be a mutual match
1 Technical team interview
To evaluate your hard skills for the position and project yourself into the role
1 Technical test depending on your seniority
To see how you are doing hands on coding
1 Final interview with the one of the co-founder
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 ?
Maturity
- GitGuardian is a global post series B cybersecurity startup, and raised $44M with American and European investors including top-tier VC firms.
Investors
- Among some of the visionaries who saw this unique market value proposition, are the co-founder of GitHub, Scott Chacon, along with Docker co-founder and 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.
- More than 85% 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 on a daily basis.
- We are also very agile, remote-friendly, pet-friendly, and fun people to work with 🐕
- Team
- Engineering
- Locations
- Paris
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time
Guardians of Code
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. GitGuardian helps organizations find exposed sensitive information that could often lead to tens of millions of dollars in potential damage.
We love wearing our Guardians’ cape, and help each other achieve high ambitions!
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