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 and SREs worldwide!
Our SRE team is responsible for the infrastructure reliability, performance and costs, of the developer experience regarding interfaces, and of the security of our environment (shared with our Security Engineers).
We are looking for our next SRE Lead, to manage the SRE and team as well as being a true technical leader.
Missions
40% of your time will be dedicated to your team's management:
- Managing a team of 3-4 Site Reliability Engineers, creating a safe, healthy and motivated team.
- Defining and prioritizing the team's objectives, according to GitGuardian's business priorities.
- Distributing tickets.
- Managing on-call duties in the team (one week every month for each SRE team member).
60% of your time will be focus on individual contribution, on various projects, such as:
- Designing, developing and automating our SaaS infrastructure.
- Ensuring high availability, reliability and security on production systems (including upgrade, release and incident management, troubleshooting).
- Completing the migration of the existing infrastructure to Kubernetes (50% of the 8 applications already migrated).
- Taking part of the infrastructure cost control (COGS)
- Implementing a continuous delivery.
- Enhancing our tools for observability.
- Defining and providing the simplest interfaces to Software Engineers, to help them being as autonomous as possible.
- Advocate engineering teams about DevOps best practices.
- Cross-team collaboration (marketing, Eng, …)
Join our highly skilled and passionate Engineering team, and be part of an ambitious roadmap (launching several new services, updating observability, work on cost optimization)!
Requirements
If you think you match at least 70% of these criteria, please apply!
- Experience managing a team (at least 2 years)
- Previous significant experience as a SRE, deep knowledge of this role
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferably)
- Significant experience in a Kubernetes ecosystem, being able to challenge technical choices and drive the technical roadmap of the team
- Significant experience with AWS
- Experience in CI/CD, preferably with GitLab
- Good level in English and French (public speaking is part of the job)
It's nice if you...
- Don’t embed API keys in your code ;-)
- Have already worked on our entire platform stack (cf below)
- Have experience managing an on-call rotation (planification, reporting, escalation, post-mortems, etc)
- Have a previous experiences in cybersecurity and with strong security practices
Benefits
- 💰 Package that includes stock-options
- 🍜 Lunch voucher (Swile)
- 🏥 Non-charged health insurance for children (Sidecare)
- 💻 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 activities for the whole company + dedicated quarterly budget for every employee
- 🐕 Pet-friendly offices, some Guardians gets to bring their dogs from time to time
And also...
- 🏡 Remote policy: at least 2 days/week at the office for people living in Île-de-France, at least 3 days/month for people living elsewhere in France
- 👊 Working on a meaningful product; we already helped more than 600k developers across the globe
- 📈 A robust engineering culture, discover our R&D projects
- 🚀 Many opportunities for career development in the long term
- 👫 Trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication and a strong impact on the company development
Recruitment process
At GitGuardian, we are committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce.
We will ask for your gender identity on the application page to help us understand the diversity of our applicant pool and to track our progress in attracting and hiring a diverse workforce. The information is optional and will not be disclosed to the hiring manager or the interview team and will not be considered in the hiring process. We appreciate your willingness to share this with us so that we can continue to improve our diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
1. Video call with a Talent Acquisition team member
To discover your professional project and evaluate if there could be a mutual match.
2. Team interview with Eric (your future manager) and Jeremy (CTO)
To know more about yourself and your achievements (technical knowledge, project management, people management, business acumen) and present to you our vision.
3. Technical interview
1h30 video interview with the SRE team, to evaluate your skills for the position and project yourself into the role.
Q&A, live case study, live Linux troubleshoot.
4. Final interview with an Executive Manager
To detail our company’s vision and ambitions for the next couple of years.
Curious to know more about us ?
Stack
Backend: Python (Django) Go, Rust
Frontend: JavaScript (React), TypeScript, React Query, Jest
DB: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch (+ Kibana), MongoDB
Observability: Elastic Stack, Sentry, Grafana LGTM, OTEL
Deployment: ArgoCD, GitlabCI, Terraform
Runtime: Kubernetes (Karpenter, Istio)
Cloud providers: AWS and OVH
Message brokering: RabbitMQ, Redis
Secret manager: Hashicorp Vault
Products
- Want to go even further? Check out our public roadmap!
- Check out the State of Secrets Sprawl Report to understand our mission and the industry.
- Mackenzie (DevRel) will tell you about how GitGuardian works in this video!
- Our solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers in all industries and GitGuardian platform is the n°1 security app on the GitHub marketplace 🔥
Clients
- GitGuardian helps organizations find exposed sensitive information that could often lead to tens of millions of dollars in potential damage.
- More than 70% of our customers are in the United States.
- Many F500 companies use GitGuardian's platform.
People
- The Guardians are knowledgeable, committed, serious, aligned with the company’s mission, and true team players: always willing to help each other grow our skill sets!
- The team is diverse and we hail from more than 20 different countries.
- We are also agile, remote-friendly, and fun people to work with.
