Senior Software Engineer (backend, Django)
Senior Software Engineer (backend, Django)
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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
GitGuardian is a tech company as such the engineering department is key to the success of the company. The main challenges we are solving include: scanning various data streams at scale to find secrets in them (scan >10M code patches messages or images 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 highly skilled software engineers to reinforce our 50 engineers department and build the best secret security platform in the world.
Your main mission will be to:
- Write code on a day to day basis to make our product better.
- 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.
- Help to level up the overall engineering departments by reviewing your peers code mentoring more junior developers pushing for code quality.
- Be involved in transverse discussions for engineering: this can be reviewing design that may impact your teams perimeter be involved in cross team discussions around our stack and tech decisions.
Our technical environment
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
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:
- You have at least 5 years of web software development experience with a strong Django knowledge (or another Python web development framework like FastAPI or Flask).
- You are experienced working with the following : web application development task orchestration distributed systems managing big data flows.
- You have a dynamic and proactive personality. Youre always willing to help your colleagues.
- You are good at communicating your ideas (written or oral) in English and French. You adapt and can be high level or deep dive into solutions.
The following skills would strengthen your application but arent required:
- You have a track record of working with a big monolithic code base and you know some architecture best practices in such an environment.
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 Senior Engineering Manager (45 minutes)
Purpose: The goal here is to get to know you talk about your past experiences present GitGuardian who we are what problems we solve and answer any questions you may have.
Skills Assessed: We assess your soft skills (ownership communication) motivation and your understanding of our problem space.
2. Technical interview with Engineers (2x45 minutes)
Purpose: We validate your hard skills. A first part is focusing on Python theoretical questions and hands-on live coding exercises. The second part is a system design discussion: we walk you through a problem weve had at GitGuardian. Overall we want to see how you write code and think about real-world problems.
Skills Assessed: Python coding proficiency architecture skills and overall communication and reasoning.
3. Interview with your future manager (60 minutes)
Purpose: We 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.
4. References check
You can start thinking about two contacts (the most possible) that we can call at the end of the process as references of you previous experiences.
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: this position is open to hybrid (2 days/week at the office) or full-remote (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
