Senior Software Engineer (backend, Rust)

This position is open to full remote (2 days/month required at Paris office) or hybrid remote.

About GitGuardian

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!

About your team and your mission

The engineering department is key to the success of GitGuardian. The main challenges we are solving include: scanning various data streams at scale to find secrets in them (scan >10M code patches, messages or documents every day), developing our scout component that is deployed on our customers’ infrastructure to securely collect and map non-human identities, integrate ML models and capabilities in our product with an elegant UX.

We are looking for a talented software engineer to reinforce our 50+ engineers department and build the best secret security platform in the world. In particular, we are shifting some critical components such as the secret detection engine to Rust to be able to scan more data efficiently (like application logs or ftp servers).

Your main mission will be to:

• Write code on a day to day basis to keep our secret detection engine ahead of competition.
• Own the delivery of some projects or features with your team. You collaborate with your PM and other engineers to come up with efficient and resilient implementations.
• Be a cornerstone of GitGuardian’s shift to Rust by driving changes and ramp-up of team members
• Help to level up the overall engineering department’s by reviewing your peer’s code, mentoring more junior developers, and pushing for code quality.
• Be involved in transverse discussions for engineering: this can be participating in technical design committees that may impact your team’s perimeter, be involved in cross team discussions around our stack and tech decisions.

Technical environment

• Backend: Python with Django and Celery, with a growing focus on Rust for critical parts.
• DB: PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
• Frontend: React / Typescript
• Deployment: Kubernetes, AWS

About you

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

Here’s what we consider essential for success in this role:

• You have at least 3+ years of experience working in a Rust environment, contributing to products where performance and portability are key.
• You have a professional experience with Python in production.
• You like to analyze data to assess performance of your software.
• You have a dynamic and proactive personality. You’re always willing to help your colleagues.
• You are good at communicating your ideas (written or oral). You adapt and can be high level, or deep dive into solutions.

The following skills would strengthen your application but aren’t required:

• Experience building tooling for developers or libraries.
• Experience conducting data analysis on large datasets.
• A track record of working with a big monolithic code base, and you know some architecture best practices in such an environment.
• Experience in web development.

The interview process

At GitGuardian, we are committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce.

We will ask for your gender identity 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, equity 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. Technical interview with Engineers (1h30)

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

3. Interview with your future manager

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

4. Final interview with a Senior Manager

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

Benefits

• Package that includes stock-options
• Lunch voucher (Swile)
• Non-charged health insurance for children (Sidecare / Generali)
• Up to €300 to improve your home office set-up
• Yearly holiday allowance
• Referral bonus of 4000€ for any new Guardian we might hire thanks to you
•  Team building: monthly budget dedicated to each employee that you can spend as you wish, with colleagues (latest examples to date: star restaurant, karaoke, stand-up show, karting, …)
• Pet-friendly offices, some Guardians gets to bring their dogs from time to time

And also…

• Remote policy: this position is open to full remote (2 days/month required at Paris office) or hybrid remote (half of the week at the office).
• Working on a meaningful product; we already helped more than 600k developers across the globe
• A robust engineering culture, discover our R&D projects
• Many opportunities for career development in the long term
• Trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication and a strong impact on the company development

More about GitGuardian!

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

Products

• Want to go even further? Check out our public roadmap!
• Check out the State of Secrets Sprawl Report to understand our mission and the industry.
• Mackenzie (DevRel) will tell you about how GitGuardian works in this video!
• Our solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers in all industries and GitGuardian platform is the #1 app on the GitHub marketplace

Clients

• GitGuardian helps organizations find exposed sensitive information that could often lead to tens of millions of dollars in potential damage.
• More than 70% of our customers are in the United States.
• Many F500 companies use GitGuardian’s platform.

People

• The Guardians are knowledgeable, committed, serious, aligned with the company’s mission, and true team players: always willing to help each other grow our skill sets!
• The team is diverse and we hail from more than 20 different countries.