We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer (LDE) to help us build and lead a team of Data Engineers and Data Architects to ship high quality features on a predictable schedule, by reporting to the VP of Engineering.

By joining our team, you will take on the following responsibilities:

• Lead a team that is responsible for developing and maintaining large scale distributed software and a Data Warehouse (DWH) across public cloud platforms
• Participate in the design and implementation of new features to meet GitGuardian’s dynamic and evolving business needs
• Engage with internal users (Ops, Marketing, Sales…), product managers, senior tech-leads and senior management to define the team’s technical strategy and increase the efficiency and impact of the team
• Be able to understand business requests and needs, and translate them into data engineering tasks and projects.
• Mentor and upskill other team members on technical skills and career development, and foster a growing and collaborative culture for the team
• Help team members set ambitious goals and achieve them, and take ownership of sub-systems
• Support recruiting efforts in order to meet changing business needs and promote internal mobility
• Help define the software engineering wide OKRs and processes
• Ensure an inclusive and healthy engineering culture

Why should you join us?

As a post Series B startup, we are facing many exciting & strategic challenges and we are experiencing very rapid growth: our goal is to recruit +100 people in 2022!

🌴 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

• 4+ years of data engineering experience
• 1+ years of experience of leading and/or managing an engineering team with a track record of shipping high quality software
• Strong experience with Python
• Strong skills in SQL
• Clear, proactive communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to develop high-trust relationships with stakeholders
• Extensive experience building systems leveraging microservices or on purpose chosen monolithic architecture
• Familiarity with the use of some of the following tools: BI Tools (PowerBI, Tableau, MicroStrategy…), Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Kafka, Hadoop, Apache Pig, Spark, Hive, KSQLDB, Kafka Streams…
• Degree in engineering, computer science or similar technical field
• You like to build small scripts and CI pipelines (in Bash or Python) to improve the engineering efficiency of your team
• You’re a true team player, always willing to help your peers improve their skills
• You speak English fluently

Bonus points:

• Deep understanding of the startups dynamics and challenges, because we are expanding constantly!
• Have experienced strong team growth in a previous company
• Have experienced in developing a product for developers or DevOps or security team
• You want to build tools to secure the software development lifecycle :).
• You are a passionate Pythonista :)

• 1 interview with our HR recruiter
• 1 interview with the VP of engineering or the CTO
• 1 technical team interview