Staff Software Engineer, GitGuardian
2-5 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
2-5 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
- 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
- You’re eager to conference or meetup speaking inside or outside the company
Desirable
- You have prior experience in a leadership or mentoring role
- You like building tools for developers
- You have experience building security products
- You don’t hard code API keys in your code
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Application 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
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: $107.1m
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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