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 department’s by reviewing your peer’s 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 team’s perimeter, be involved in cross team discussions around our stack and tech decisions.

Our technical environment

Backend: Python with Django and Celery.
DB: PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
Frontend: React / Typescript
Deployment: Kubernetes, AWS

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 5+ years of web software development experience, with a strong Python knowledge.

• You are experienced working with the following : web application development, task orchestration, distributed systems, managing big data flows.

• You are okay with working with frontend technologies to accelerate the delivery of your features

• 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) in English and French. You adapt and can be high level, or deep dive into solutions.

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

• You are an expert with Django.

• You have a track record of working with a big monolithic code base, and you know some architecture best practices in such an environment.

1. Video call with a Senior Engineering Manager (45 minutes)

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. Backend technical interview with Engineers (2x45 minutes)

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 we’ve 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. Frontend Technical Test (30 minutes)*
We want to understand your background with frontend technologies. Assess you have the minimal required skills to understand and write some basic React.
Skills Assessed: React proficiency, general frontend knowledge.*

4.1 Interview with your future manager (60 minutes)

To ensure your vision and working style align with GitGuardian’s 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.

4.2 References check

You can start thinking about two contacts who can attest to your previous or current professional experiences. These contacts should be as recent as possible, and we will call them at the end of the process.