Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer
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About GitGuardian
GitGuardian is a global post-Series B cybersecurity scale-up with team members in France Europe and in the USA.
Among our early investors who saw our market value proposition are the co-founder of GitHub Scott Chacon along with Solomon Hykes Dockers 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
As a Senior Data Engineer you will join a team of 3 passionate and highly-skilled engineers who are pivotal to GitGuardians growth and success. Our teams scope is uniquely broad encompassing the entire data lifecyclefrom ingestion and transformation to delivering critical business insights and enhancing our product with data-driven features. Youll be at the crossroads of Business Intelligence and Product development with a direct impact on our companys trajectory.
Your main responsibilities will be to:
- Design build and maintain our data platform ensuring its scalability reliability and performance to meet the demands of a high-growth environment.
- Develop and optimize robust ELT pipelines leveraging tools like Fivetran and Airbyte for standard sources and building custom connectors where needed to ingest data from a wide variety of sources including PostgreSQL Elasticsearch and third-party APIs (e.g. Hubspot GitLab Notion).
- Architect and implement sophisticated data models in our Snowflake data warehouse transforming raw data into clean business-ready tables that serve as the single source of truth.
- Collaborate on impactful business projects working closely with stakeholders across Sales Marketing and Product to understand their needs and deliver data solutions that drive strategic decisions.
- Power our customer-facing analytics developing and exposing data within the GitGuardian product to provide our users with valuable insights.
- Champion data quality and governance across the organization establishing best practices and ensuring the integrity of our data assets.
- Mentor and guide other engineers sharing your expertise and contributing to the continuous improvement of our teams skills and processes.
Technical Environment
Core Languages: Python SQL
Data Warehouse: Snowflake
Orchestration & Deployment: Dagster Kubernetes Docker Terraform
Data Ingestion: Fivetran Airbyte custom scripts
Data Visualization: Metabase
Data Sources: PostgreSQL Elasticsearch various APIs
About you
If you think you match at least 70% of these criteria please apply!
Heres what we consider essential for success in this role:
- 5 years experience in data engineering with a proven track record of building and managing complex data platforms in a cloud environment.
- Expert-level proficiency in Python and SQL; you are comfortable writing clean efficient and production-ready code.
- A comprehensive understanding of modern data architectures including data warehousing data modeling and ETL/ELT best practices.
- Hands-on experience with our core technologies or their equivalents (e.g. Airflow instead of Dagster; Redshift or BigQuery instead of Snowflake).
- A strong business sense and the ability to translate complex business requirements into technical solutions that have a tangible impact.
- A proactive and ownership-driven mindset with a passion for solving challenging problems and driving projects from conception to completion.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
The following skills would strengthen your application but arent required:
- Previous experience in a high-growth B2B SaaS or cybersecurity company.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker Kubernetes).
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform).
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. Interview with your future manager (60 minutes)
Purpose: To align on your experience working style and your high-level approach to data architecture and data modeling. This is a chance to discuss technical philosophy and ensure your vision matches the teams direction.
Skills Assessed: We assess your soft skills (ownership communication) motivation and your high-level system design and architectural thinking.
2. Technical interview (60 minutes)
Purpose: To validate your hands-on technical skills through practical coding exercises and operational scenarios. We want to see how you write code optimize queries and troubleshoot real-world problems.
Skills Assessed: Your Python coding proficiency advanced SQL skills and debugging abilities. We will focus on your approach to writing clean efficient code and handling operational failures.
3. Final interview with an Executive Manager (30 minutes)
Purpose: To ensure your vision and working style align with GitGuardians broader company strategy and values.
Skills Assessed: Your high-level business acumen strategic thinking and cultural alignment. We want to understand your potential long-term impact on the company.
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: Michelin star restaurant karaoke stand-up show kitesurfing week-end ...)
And also...
- Remote policy: hybrid (2 days/week at the office) or full-remote (but 3 days/month at the office)
- Opportunities for career development in the long term
More about GitGuardian!
Products
- Understand how GitGuardian works in this short video!
- 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.
- Our solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers in all industries and GitGuardian platform is the n1 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 GitGuardians platform.
People
- The Guardians are knowledgeable committed serious aligned with the companys 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.
- We are also agile remote-friendly and fun people to work with.
- You will get trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication and a strong impact on the company development.
Employment Type
Full Time
