Senior Software Engineer (backend, Rust)

This position is open to full remote (2 days/month required at Paris office) or hybrid remote.

About GitGuardian

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!

About your team and your mission

The engineering department is key to the success of GitGuardian. The main challenges we are solving include: scanning various data streams at scale to find secrets in them (scan >10M code patches, messages or documents 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 a talented software engineer to reinforce our 50+ engineers department and build the best secret security platform in the world. In particular, we are shifting some critical components such as the secret detection engine to Rust to be able to scan more data efficiently (like application logs or ftp servers).

Your main responsibilities will be to:

• Write code on a day to day basis to keep our secret detection engine ahead of competition.
• 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.
• Be a cornerstone of GitGuardian’s shift to Rust by driving changes and ramp-up of team members
• Help to level up the overall engineering department’s by reviewing your peer’s code, mentoring more junior developers, and pushing for code quality.
• Be involved in transverse discussions for engineering: this can be participating in technical design committees that may impact your team’s perimeter, be involved in cross team discussions around our stack and tech decisions.

Technical environment

• Backend: Python with Django and Celery, with a growing focus on Rust for critical parts.
• DB: PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
• Frontend: React / Typescript
• Deployment: Kubernetes, AWS

About You

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 3+ years of experience working in a Rust environment, contributing to products where performance and portability are key.
• You have a professional experience with Python in production.
• You like to analyze data to assess performance of your software.
• 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). You adapt and can be high level, or deep dive into solutions.

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

• Experience building tooling for developers or libraries.
• Experience conducting data analysis on large datasets.
• A track record of working with a big monolithic code base, and you know some architecture best practices in such an environment.
• Experience in web development.

The interview process

• Video call with a Talent Acquisition team member

To discover your professional project and evaluate if there could be a mutual match.

• Technical interview with Engineers (1h30)

To evaluate your skills for the position and project yourself into the role.

• Interview with your future manager

To know more about yourself, your achievements, and present to you the team.

• Final interview with a Senior Manager

To detail our company’s vision and ambitions for the next couple of years.