Staff Software Engineer - Remote France or Europe

About

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 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!

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

  • Secret manager: Hashicorp Vault

Job Description

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.

  • 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 2025.

Preferred Experience

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

Leadership and Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Proven track record of leading technical initiatives in organizations of 70 to 100+ people.

  • You have a track record of effectively leading technical initiatives and collaborating with cross-functional teams in an organization of at least one hundred people.

  • Strong background in fostering cross-functional skills across engineering teams.

  • Fluency in English

Technical Expertise

  • You are an expert in Python with solid experience in Django and large monolithic codebases.

  • Experience working with large monolithic codebases transitioning to modular architectures.

  • Experience with performance optimization and scalability challenges in monolithic codebases and relational databases.

  • You are an expert in web application development, Unix/Linux environments, and distributed and parallel systems.

 Cloud and Containerization Knowledge

  • You have expert-level knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Security and Compliance Experience

  • Experience working in security-focused environments, particularly with companies adhering to compliance standards such as SOC 1, SOC 2, and ISO certifications.

Bonus points

  • 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

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.  Interview with Jeremy (Chief Technical Officer) and Henri (Engineering Manager)

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

3. Technical test 

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

4. Final interview with Eric (CEO)

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

Additional Information

  • Contract Type: Full-Time
  • Location: Paris
  • Experience: > 7 years
  • Possible full remote
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