Staff Software Engineer

Context

GitGuardian is a global post-Series B cybersecurity scale-up.

Among our early investors who saw our market value proposition are the co-founder of GitHub, Scott Chacon, along with Solomon Hykes ,Docker's 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!

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.

Curious about all the technical problems you\'ll tackle? Check out our engineering challenges for 2026.

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: JavaScript (React), TypeScript, React Query, Jest
• DB: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse
• Observability: Sentry, Grafana, Coralogix
• Deployment: ArgoCD, GitlabCI, Terraform
• Runtime: Kubernetes (Karpenter, Istio)
• Cloud providers: AWS and OVH
• Message brokering: RabbitMQ, Redis

Requirements

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

Technical Expertise

• 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.

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

• You have expertise around plain text search at scale
• You have built and operated graph databases with millions of nodes
• You like building tools for developers
• You have experience building security products
• You’re eager to conference or meet-up speaking inside or outside the company
• You don’t hard code API keys in your code

Benefits

• Package that includes BSPCE
• Lunch voucher (Swile, 9€ at 50%)
• Sponsored Wellpass (gymlib)
• Non-charged health insurance for children (Sidecare / Generali)
• Up to €300 to improve your home office set-up
• Yearly holiday allowance