Pre-Sales Engineer, GitGuardian
USA
$165-190k
2-5 days a week in office
Code security platform for the DevOps generation
Be an early applicant
Code security platform for the DevOps generation
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$165-190k
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
- Significant experience (4-7+ years) as a technical Sales Engineer in a Cybersecurity, DevOps or DevSecOps focused environment. This is a must have
- Solid understanding of the modern SDLC, of the difference between microservices and monolithic architecture and of what CI/CD is
- Experience working through complex sales cycles in large Enterprise environments
- 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). Our ideal candidate will be able to articulate their experience multi-threading
- Customer-facing & sales oriented personality
- Spanish (and/or Portuguese) speaking skills a plus!
What the job involves
- 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
- Work closely with Account Executives in pre-sales period, helping to close deals by acting as GitGuardian’s technical voice & product expert
- You will provide support for PoCs, performing technical product demos and soothing concerns, as well as support pipeline generation by running secrets analysis
- Architect and build 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 Tier 1 support needs of your existing Enterprise customers
- Partner 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 Talent Acquisition team member
- To discover your professional projects and evaluate if there could be a mutual match
- 2. Team interview: Meet the team and/or your future manager
- To know more about yourself and your achievements, and present to you the team
- 3. Business case
- To work at home and to present to the team
- Objective: to evaluate your skills for the position and project yourself into the role
- 4. Final interview with the CEO
- Eric will 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: $107.3m
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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