About GitGuardian

GitGuardian is a global post series C cybersecurity scale-up. The company is based in Paris, New-York and Boston.

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. We’re applying the same ambition internally by building an AI-powered operating model—using agents, automation, and data to run GitGuardian faster and smarter every day.

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. Curious about all the technical problems you'll tackle? Check out our engineering challenges for 2026.

The engineering department is composed of around 10 teams of 3 to 6 developers. Each team is lead by an Engineering Manager and helped by a Product Manager. As an EM, you are responsible for the delivery and the success of your team.

Here are the teams we are hiring for:

• Applied AI: the team ships AI features in GitGuardian platform: in-app agent, AI filters, LLM enrichments among others. The team also works on standardizing how AI features are shipped in our platform.

• Public Monitoring: GitGuardian has been constantly monitoring several public data sources for exposed credentials. Scanning billions of commits, docker images, packages in real time and assessing their impact is a big challenge. The public monitoring team is responsible of this, in addition to leveraging these leaks for lead generation and to cover our customers with the best perimeter possible.

Your main responsibilities will be to:

• Lead the team on a daily basis to ensure that the team delivers as expected.

• Manage a team of talented software engineers, facilitate their growth and provide challenges that align with their goals.

• Make technical decisions with your team to ensure that your features meet GitGuardian’s quality standards.

• Manage interactions with other engineering teams and oversee the dependencies between your projects.

Technical environment:

• Core Languages: Python with Django, React

• Infrastructure: K8S, RabbitMQ, ArgoCD

• Data: PostgreSQL, Redis

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:

• 5+ years in a software engineer experience building web applications or complex backend systems.

• Former experience as a developer using Python.

• 1+ year of experience leading or managing an engineering team with a track record of shipping high quality software

• Familiarity with frontend development using either React or Angular.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication: you are able to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams. Clear communication both written and verbal.

• Fluent English

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

• Previous experience in a high-growth B2B SaaS company.

• Previous experience in cybersecurity.

• You have encountered challenges related to monolithic architecture and scaling app performance for millions of users.

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 understand your motivations, seniority, and fit for being an engineering manager at GitGuardian.
Skills assessed: communication, past experience as an engineering manager, fit with our technical stack and culture.

2. Interview with your future manager

To discuss with a senior engineering manager about your vision of management, your past experiences.
Skills assessed: management skills, driving a team, handling hard discussions, building a vision for your team, delivery management.

3. Technical interview

To assess your technical skills on our stack.
The first part is a Python interview. The second part is a system design interview where we will discuss some typical problems we have encountered at GitGuardian.

4.1 Final interview with an Executive Manager

To ensure your vision and working style align with GitGuardian's broader company strategy and values. It’s also an opportunity for you to ask all your questions about the company.
Skilled assessed: your high-level business or product acumen, strategic thinking, and cultural alignment. We want to understand your potential long-term impact on the company.

4.2 References check

You can start identifying two contacts who can vouch for your past or current professional experiences. These contacts should be recent, and we will reach out to them at the end of the process.

Benefits

• 💰 Package that includes BSPCE

• 🍜 Lunch voucher (Swile, 9€ at 50%)

• 👟 Sponsored Wellpass (gymlib)

• 🏥 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: Michelin star restaurant, karaoke, stand-up show, kitesurfing week-end, ...)

And also...

• 🏡 Remote policy: hybrid (3 days/week at the office in Paris)

• 📈 Opportunities for career development in the long term

More about GitGuardian!

Stack

Backend: Python (Django) Go, Rust
Frontend: JavaScript (React), TypeScript, React Query, Jest
DB: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch (+ Kibana), MongoDB
Observability: Elastic Stack, Sentry, Grafana LGTM, OTEL
Deployment: ArgoCD, GitlabCI, Terraform
Runtime: Kubernetes (Karpenter, Istio)
Cloud providers: AWS and OVH
Message brokering: RabbitMQ, Redis

Products

• Understand how GitGuardian works in this short video!

• 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.

• Our solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers in all industries and GitGuardian platform is the n°1 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.

• You will get trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication and a strong impact on the company development.

Team

Engineering

Role

Engineering Manager

Locations

Paris

Remote status

Hybrid

Employment type

Full-time

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