Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
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Engineering
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Paris - France
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hybrid Remote

About GitGuardian

GitGuardian is a global post-Series B cybersecurity scale-up, with team members in France, Europe and in the USA.

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!

About your team and your mission

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).

Reporting the SRE Lead, you will join a team of 4. Your missions will be:

  • 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.

On a daily basis, 60% of your time will include build projects, 40% run and support (KTLO). The position include on-call duty (one week every month for each SRE team member).

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)!

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:

  • Embracing a DevOps philosophy with a strong security appetite!
  • 6 to 10 years of previous experience in a similar position
  • Deep knowledge of AWS
  • Having significant experience using Kubernetes in production
  • Having experience working in distributed and parallel systems, with web application development and Unix/Linux environments
  • Having experience with a CI/CD system
  • Having worked on Grafana at least as a user (better if admin)

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

  • Having used Hashicorp Vault and Ansible
  • Having worked in a structured environment (60 developers at GitGuardian)
  • Understand startup dynamics and challenges

The interview 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. Manager interview with Eric (Engineering Manager)

To know more about yourself and your achievements, evaluate the cultural fit and detail our company’s vision and ambitions for the next couple of years.

3. Technical interview with the team

1h30 interview with our SRE team, to evaluate your skills for the position, project yourself into the role.

Q&A, live case study, live Linux troubleshoot.

4. References check

5. Offer

Benefits

  • 💰 Package that includes stock-options
  • 🍜 Lunch voucher (Swile)
  • 🏥 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 (2 days/week at the office) or full-remote (but 3 days/month at the office)
  • 📈 Opportunities for career development in the long term
  • 👊  A robust engineering culture, discover our R&D projects

More about GitGuardian!

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

  • Understand how GitGuardian works in this short video!
  • 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.
  • Our solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers in all industries and GitGuardian platform is the n°1 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.
  • You will get trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication and a strong impact on the company development.
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Glassdoor

We invite you to have a look at our Glassdoor profile for transparent reviews from our previous and current employees.

  • Very pleased

    Very dynamic company, and very friendly team. The technical level is quite high which is very stimulating. Open for remote work!

  • Great spirit in a dynamic company

    GitGuardian has a deep technical DNA. The culture is very much oriented towards knowledge sharing. The environment is sound: big ambitions without pressure from the top management.

  • Good company to work for!

    Good projects with technical challenge, career progression, good salary.

  • Great place to work

    Application Security is exciting. Our products are really useful and customers love them. Great leadership. Competitive OTE, workplace flexibility and cool gatherings.

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