Sales Engineer, GitGuardian
EMEA
Plus stock-options
2+ days a week in office
Code security platform for the DevOps generation
Job no longer available
Code security platform for the DevOps generation
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
Plus stock-options
2+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help organisations secure the modern way of building software and foster collaboration between developers, cloud operations and security teams.
Role
Who you are
- Engineering or Computer Science degree background
- Significant experience (3 to 5 years) as a Sales Engineer or Technical Account Manager or Solutions Engineer in a software engineer focused environment
- Great understanding of the modern software development lifecycle (SDLC), of the difference between microservices and monolithic architecture and of what CI/CD is
- Well developed project management skills (pre-sales & post-sales periods often involve speaking with multiple stakeholders who work on various teams, either internally or externally)
- Customer-facing and sales oriented personality
- Ability to work fully remote, to work with our distributed US Sales team
- Bonus: experience in the DevSecOps / AppSec industry
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a technical Sales Engineer, to work closely with our sales teams, currently distributed between the US and France
- Your team will include Americans and Europeans, granting you an international experience with room for growth
- You will nurture and support an extended sales cycle, explaining and demonstrating our platform to numerous stakeholders
- You will be a close ally to our Account Executives, working hand in hand to facilitate complex relationships. You have excellent communication and project management skills
- Working closely with Account Executives in pre-sales period, helping to close deals by acting as GitGuardian’s technical voice & product expert
- Providing support for PoCs, performing technical product demos and soothing concerns
- Architecting and building out custom workflows for our prospective customers to show them the value of our product and how it will fit into their environment
- Post-sales, answering level 1 support needs of your existing Enterprise customers
- Partnering with the Marketing and Product teams to create all the technical collaterals needed for a better understanding of our solutions and of the market’s needs
Application process
- 1. Video call with a recruiter
- To discover your professional project and evaluate if there could be a mutual match
- 2. Call with Stanislas, team leader
- To know more about you, your achievements and project yourself into the role
- 3. Business case + presentation
- To prepare at home and to present to Stanislas and a team member: to evaluate your skills for the position and answer your questions
- 4. Final interview with the CEO
- To detail our company’s vision and ambitions for the next couple of years
Our take
The twin uptakes of GitHub usage and cloud architectures have resulted in the propagation of digital authentication credentials in both public and private code repositories. Think APIs, cryptographic keys and login credentials.
GitGuardian has become the go-to for 100,000s of developers to identify these secrets in real time, securing enterprise software with bottom-up adoption.
The startup has also built from its secret detection expertise and extended its technology to encode a wide variety of vulnerabilities to compete with legacy code security platforms. In 2021, GitGuardian raised an impressive $44 million in order to accelerate this innovation.
So far, GitGuardian’s laser-sharp focus on secret detection has allowed it to carve out a lucrative niche, but the expansion of its technology will bring it into direct competition with well-established cyber security giants. The company is gathering momentum, however, and is likely to scale in line with its technology in the coming years.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
62% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2026
$50m
SERIES C
Dec 2021
$44m
SERIES B
Total funding: $107m
Company benefits
- 🌴 A remote-friendly environment up to 3 days / week
- 💸 An attractive package that includes stock-options
- 💻 The latest setup equipment including cool apps, tools and technologies
- 👊 Working to develop a meaningful product → we already helped more than 200k developers!
- 🍺 Lots of team-building activities
- 🚀 Many opportunities for career development in the long term
- 📈 A strong engineering culture
- 🐕 Pet-friendly offices → every Guardian gets to bring their dogs to the office and we love it!
- 👫 Lots of trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication
Company HQ
Mail, Paris, France
Leadership
Eric Fourrier
(Co-Founder & CEO)Data science and Machine learning software engineer. Worked for credit scoring startup, Lending Club, in Paris before co-founding data science products consultancy alongside their eventual GitGuardian co-founder.
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