Staff Software Engineer, Scanning Engine

GitGuardian; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

GitGuardian in Paris is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and drive high-impact initiatives across the engineering organization.

You will own technical strategy, collaborate with product and design, contribute hands-on development, and ensure scalable, reliable platforms while supporting a growing team in 2026.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical initiatives in a large organization.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration across multiple teams.
• Fluency in English required.
• Expert Python development with Django in large codebases.
• Experience with modern web stacks and scalable services.

Responsibilities

• Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy across engineering.
• Mentor engineers and promote learning culture.
• Collaborate with product, design, and stakeholders to define requirements.
• Conduct code reviews and uphold coding standards.
• Stay up-to-date with technologies and apply them.
• Hands-on software development and maintain code quality.
• Support growth of engineering teams.
• Ensure performance, scalability, and reliability of platforms.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collab

English fluency

Python

Django

Monolithic codebase

Tools

React

Kubernetes

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Job description

About GitGuardian

GitGuardian is a global cybersecurity scale-up. The company is based in Paris, New York City, Boston.
Our early investors include Scott Chacon, co-founder of GitHub, and Solomon Hykes, co-founder of Docker, alongside leading US and European VC firms. We raised our Series C in early 2026.
GitGuardian leads the way in securing the credential layer, helping organizations protect the secrets that let code, machines, and AI agents access systems with broad detection, identity context, and remediation at scale. Already trusted by 600K+ developers worldwide and by 50 of the Fortune 500!

About your team and your mission

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.

Staff engineers are leading the engineering excellence at GitGuardian, they own our technical vision. In practice, they lead the design, development, and implementation of complex technical solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.

• Drive architectural decisions, technical strategy, and best practices across the engineering organization.

• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and excellence.

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define requirements and deliver innovative solutions that address customer needs.

• Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.

• Identify technical challenges and proactively propose solutions to address them.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies, trends, and best practices in software engineering and apply them to enhance our products and processes.

• Do hands-on software development.

• Maintain and ensure an excellent quality of code and healthy codebase.

• Participate in the growth of our engineering teams! We are growing fast and we need you to support our continued growth in 2026.

Stack

• Backend: Python (Django), Rust

• Frontend: JavaScript (React), TypeScript, React Query, Jest

• DB: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse

• Observability: Sentry, Grafana, Coralogix

• Deployment: ArgoCD, GitlabCI, Terraform

• Runtime: Kubernetes (Karpenter, Istio)

• Cloud providers: AWS and OVH

• Message brokering: RabbitMQ, Redis

About you

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

Leadership and Cross-Functional Collaboration

• You have a track record of effectively leading technical initiatives and collaborating with multiple teams in an organization of at least one hundred people.

• Strong background in fostering cross-functional skills across engineering teams.

• Fluency in English

Technical Expertise

• You are an expert in Python with solid experience in Django and large monolithic codebases.