Senior DevOps Engineer (self-hosted product)

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

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

This is a specific position, different from a classic SRE position. You'll join the Self-Hosted team, dedicated to GitGuardian’s self-hosted product. This team is at the heart of the delivery for our most prestigious customers (representing 40% of our revenues).

As a undefined Engineer, you’ll work closely with a Product Manager (who is highly technical) and the team’s Engineering Manager to ensure the development of our next self-hosted services and the high quality of our releases.

Your mission will be to:

• Design, develop and administer our Self-hosted infrastructure (Adapt the product to different types of customer infra).
• Ensure high quality, reliability, and security for our self-hosted releases (including incident management and troubleshooting).
• Enhance the release process (monthly releases) by adding more automation and quality checks.
• Enhance our releases for observability and troubleshooting.
• Helping engineering teams create and maintain new self-hosted services.
• Develop and maintain the infrastructure that serves our developers' test environment (review-apps).
• Advocate undefined best practices to engineering teams, advising them on possible architectures and expertise.
• Provide customer support (Level 3), eventually attending customer calls twice a month on average.

Technical environment

• Kubernetes, Helm
• Docker
• Nginx/Istio
• Terraform
• Replicated
• GitLab CI
• ArgoCD
• Review apps (fully isolated test environments)
• Backend: python, Django
• Postgresql

What makes this role unique?

The stack is highly technical, owned end-to-end. GitGuardian’s roadmap is ambitious, with several new services to launch and infrastructure parts to improve (eg: NHI Governance, customers infrastructure). You will have a direct impact for large international customers. You will join a team of experts and passionate engineers, willing to learn and share knowledge.

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:

• Significant experience in building and maintaining self-hosted or on-premise Kubernetes solutions;
• Expertise using Kubernetes in production as a cluster admin, Helm, and Docker;
• Familiarity with on-premise Kubernetes distributions such as OpenShift or Rancher is a plus;
• Experience in observability (admin on Grafana);
• Having deployed applications on Kubernetes clusters, regardless of the underlying cloud provider (AWS, GCP, OVH, etc.);
• Strong knowledge of at least one CI/CD system (GitLab CI, ArgoCD, GitHub actions)
  Customer focus (willing to participate in customers calls when needed);
• French and English fluency.

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

• Experience with Replicated;
• Experience with Chainguard Docker images;
• Affinity for developer efficiency and local environment tools such as k3s.

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 recruiter

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

2. Technical interview

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

3. Interview with your future manager

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

4. Final interview with an Executive Manager

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

5. References checks

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: star restaurant, karaoke, stand-up show, karting, ...)
• 🐕 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

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

• 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.