SRE Engineering Manager

GitGuardian; Paris; Hybride; EUR 110 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

BSPCE

Lunch vouchers (Swile)

Sponsored Wellpass (gymlib)

Health insurance for children

Home office allowance up to €300

Yearly holiday allowance

Referral bonus €4000

Team building budget

Hybrid work in Paris (3 days/week)

Résumé du poste

GitGuardian is seeking a Senior SRE Team Lead to drive the reliability and scalability of our SaaS platform. You will lead a 3-person SRE team, align infrastructure with customer SLAs, and own monitoring, security, and on-call operations in a hybrid Paris setup.

You will mentor engineers, define quarterly goals, and collaborate across teams to improve availability, latency, and cost efficiency while upholding security and data compliance standards.

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering/computer science.
• Minimum 2 years in a similar management role.
• Strong DevOps mindset with emphasis on observability, automation and data durability.
• Deep knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes ecosystem; Terraform experience.
• Familiarity with SDLC for SaaS products and agile project management with OKRs.
• Fluency in English and French.

Responsabilités

• Lead a 3-person SRE team and report to the Senior Engineering Manager of the Foundation tribe.
• Ensure infrastructure aligns with customer needs and SLOs; deploy and maintain monitoring.
• Drive security standards, SOC2 readiness, and regional data compliance.
• Oversee data management strategies (large-scale storage, databases) and backups.
• Participate in cloud cost optimization and incident response improvements.
• Mentor engineers and define quarterly goals; manage on-call rotations.

Connaissances

DevOps leadership

Observability

Automation

Data durability

Security mindset

SRE management

OKRs

Formation

Engineering/Computer Science degree

Outils

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Coralogix

Incident.io

Description du poste

About GitGuardian

GitGuardian is a global cybersecurity scale-up. The company is based in Paris, New-York City, Boston.

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 who raised its series C early 2026.

GitGuardian helps enterprises close credential-based breach paths. It finds secrets wherever they live, prioritizes remediation based on rich context, and prevents new exposure across code, systems, and AI. The GitGuardian platform is already used by more than 600K developers worldwide and by 50 of the fortune 500!

About Your Team And Your Mission

You’ll join the SRE team, which is responsible for providing the most efficient, scalable and reliable platform to host our code security solutions in the respect of our security requirements and SLAs, on the SaaS version.

Our typical customers are companies with hundreds of developers that are leveraging hundreds of services like SaaS applications, cloud infrastructures, or internal microservices and are mature on DevOps and cloud adoption.

Our products are used by different teams: Software Development and Ops teams, Application Security, Threat Response and the buying decision comes from CISOs / CTOs / Directors of Security.

That’s why such roles represent key responsibilities within our organization, your work will matter and will be taken very seriously!

The existing team

• You will be in charge of a team of 3 highly-skilled people and you will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of the Foundation tribe.
• Ensure that our infrastructure is aligned with our customers needs and SLA/SLO requirements
• Deploy & maintain a monitoring policy that matches technical but also business KPIs
• About Data Management, as we store a lot of data for our customers or for our internal needs, you will manage, maintain and make actual services evolve to meet company goals (context: 6 PB on S3, 14 TB on Clickhouse and 350TB on Elasticsearch)
• Follow & deploy security best practices to ensure that GitGuardian products are aligned with security standards
  • SOC2 implementation
  • Security reviews from our customers
  • Continuous improvement of our security standard regarding our customers needs
  • Regional data compliance
• Deploy & maintain backup policy regarding the critical level of stored data
• Take part into Cloud Cost optimization (finOps)
• Help developers troubleshoot applications incidents and choose the best possible architecture for each product
• You will be part of the on-call team and you will have the opportunity to improve the experience to minimise on-call actions
• Write and maintain documentation about infrastructure, process & security
• Support our Sales teams, including participating in some customer calls, on specifics relative to SRE.

Missions

• Build technical decisions and strategy for the future of the platform, define quarterly goals and ensure agile/scrum organization (manage sprints and rituals), adapted to the specificities of a SRE team.
• Manage people and mentor them as needed to ensure their progression
• Prioritize the work of the team coming from the goals, the run and the urgencies
• Take part in defining and implementing internal and cross-team processes
• Participate in designing the system to improve the availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of GitGuardian's services
• Manage and participate to on call rotation

To ensure the success of your missions, you will have to lead by example, mentor the team and establish credibility through quality technical execution. You will need to enable and monitor cross-teams collaboration, and be identified as a main point of contact for the SRE perimeter toward the organization. Your blameless and postmortem culture will be an important key to technical improvements and a serene working team.

Your capacity to prioritize tasks and projects will ensure the best balance between business priorities, platform urgencies, technical debt tackling, long-term projects, and R & D projects.

In a fast-growing environment such as GitGuardian, you will be able to scale the team and propose organizational improvements along the way, to always ensure engineering efficiency and best possible impact of the team.

The strong engineering culture of the company will provide you with interesting challenges. Combined with the HR program to accompany managers, and a supportive management, you will be given necessary means for impact, success and progress in your position.

About You

Here’s what we consider essential for success in this role:

• Degree in engineering/computer science
• 2 years minimum experience in a similar management position
• Embrace a DevOps philosophy through Observability, Automation, Data durability, with a strong security appetite!
• Deep knowledge of AWS (or another Cloud Provider), Terraform, Kubernetes ecosystem
• Solid knowledge of *nix systems
• Experience in web applications/SaaS and their SDLC,
• Comfortable with agile project management and OKRs.
• Fluency in AI agentic development.
• French and English fluency.

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

• You don't embed API keys in your code ;)
• Deep understanding of the startups dynamics and challenges
• Have experienced strong team growth in a previous company
• Have knowledge of Coralogix and Incident.io

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.

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

• Video call with a Talent Acquisition team member

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

• Team interview / Interview with your future manager

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

• Technical interview

4.1 Final interview with an Executive Manager

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

4.2 References check

You can start thinking about two contacts who can attest to your previous or current professional experiences. These contacts should be as recent as possible, and we will call them at the end of the process.

Benefits

• 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