Staff Software Engineer

Requirements

• If you think you match at least 70% of these criteria, please apply!
• Here's what we consider essential for success in this role:
• Leadership and Cross-Functional Collaboration
• You have a track record of effectively leading technical initiatives and collaborating with multiple teams in an organization of at least one hundred people
• Strong background in fostering cross-functional skills across engineering teams
• Fluency in English
• You are an expert in Python with solid experience in Django and large monolithic codebases
• Experience working with large monolithic codebases transitioning to modular architectures
• You have led several initiatives around performance optimization and scalability challenges
• You are an expert in web application development, Unix/Linux environments, and distributed and parallel systems
• Cloud and Containerization Knowledge
• You have expert-level knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Security and Compliance Experience
• Experience working in security-focused environments, particularly with companies adhering to compliance standards such as SOC 1, SOC 2, and ISO certifications
• (Desirable) You have expertise around plain text search at scale
• (Desirable) You have built and operated graph databases with millions of nodes
• (Desirable) You like building tools for developers
• (Desirable) You have experience building security products
• (Desirable) You’re eager to conference or meet-up speaking inside or outside the company
• (Desirable) You don’t hard code API keys in your code

What the job involves

• We are looking for highly skilled software engineers to reinforce our 50+ engineers department and build the best secret security platform in the world
• Staff engineers are leading the engineering excellence at GitGuardian, they own our technical vision
• In practice, they lead the design, development, and implementation of complex technical solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance
• Drive architectural decisions, technical strategy, and best practices across the engineering organization
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and excellence
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define requirements and deliver innovative solutions that address customer needs
• Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices
• Identify technical challenges and proactively propose solutions to address them
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies, trends, and best practices in software engineering and apply them to enhance our products and processes
• Do hands-on software development
• Maintain and ensure an excellent quality of code and healthy codebase
• Participate in the growth of our engineering teams! We are growing fast and we need you to support our continued growth in 2026
• Stack:
• Backend: Python (Django), Rust
• Frontend: Java

  Script (React), Type

  Script, React Query, Jest
• DB: Postgre

  SQL, Click

  House
• Observability: Sentry, Grafana, Coralogix
• Deployment: Argo

  CD, Gitlab

  CI, Terraform
• Runtime: Kubernetes (Karpenter, Istio)
• Cloud providers: AWS and OVH
• Message brokering: RabbitMQ, Redis