Senior Software Engineer (backend, Django) - NHI team
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Job description
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.
You will join the Non Human Identity Governance team. Composed of 6 engineers and a product manager, this team is building new components around NHIs, from detection to breach remediation. You will be at the top of GitGuardian's product innovation. This team has the strategic mission of building our next generation product.
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 (Django), Rust Frontend: JavaScript (React), TypeScript, React Query, Jest DB: PostgreSQL, MongoDB Observability: Coralogix, Sentry, Grafana Deployment: ArgoCD, GitlabCI, Terraform Runtime: Kubernetes (Karpenter, Istio) Cloud providers: AWS and OVH Message brokering: RabbitMQ, Redis, Purpose: 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.
- Technical interview with Engineers (2x45 minutes), Purpose: 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., Purpose: We ensure your vision and working style align with GitGuardian's broader company strategy and values.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Web development?, * You have at least 5+ years of web software development experience, with a strong Django knowledge (or another Python web development framework like FastAPI or Flask).
- You are experienced working with the following : web application development, task orchestration, distributed systems, managing big data flows.
- 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 have a track record of working with a big monolithic code base, and you know some architecture best practices in such an environment.
- You have built and operated graph databases with millions of nodes
- You have worked on a early product, Skills Assessed: Your high-level business acumen, strategic thinking, and cultural alignment. We want to understand your potential long-term impact on the company.
Benefits & conditions
- 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
- Referral bonus of 4000€ for any new Guardian we might hire thanks to you
- Team building: monthly budget dedicated to each employee that you can spend as you wish, with colleagues (latest examples to date: Michelin star restaurant, karaoke, stand-up show, kitesurfing week-end, ...)
And also...
- Remote policy: hybrid (3 days/week at the office in Paris)
- Opportunities for career development in the long term