Backend Software Engineer, GitGuardian
SCA Internship , End of Studies
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
- You are looking for a final year internship (5-6 months) to validate a master’s degree (BAC+5) in Computer Science or equivalent
- You are familiar with git and you like to code
- You are familiar with rest API and relational database conceptsYou have a good python coding level
What the job involves
- The SCA team within engineering is responsible for the development of new vulnerability detection engines (Software Composition Analysis) and their integration into our platform
- As a Backend Engineer , your main task will be to understand and improve the dependency detection engine
- Topics related to Software Composition Analysis: a code security vertical aiming at analyzing open source components of an application (such as Python dependencies) to ensure they are safe to use
- Investigate performance issues (speed, results) and new features for the search engine
- Present and implement improvements to resolve the defects found
- Integrate new functionalities into our platform
- You've got plenty of data to back up your analysis : we've scanned nearly 19 billion documents over the last 4 years
- You will work with highly valued technologies in the job market
- You will benefit from the experience of other Software Engineer and learn development best practices
- You will be part of a scale-up adventure with a strong engineering culture
Application process
- Video call with a recruiter to discover your professional project and evaluate if there could be a mutual match.
- Adapted technical test to evaluate your first skills for the position and project yourself into the role
- Team interview / to meet your future manager. To know more about yourself, present to you the team : missions, rituals, seniority level, and making sure you would be able to succeed in the following steps of the recruitment process
- Offer
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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