Senior Software Engineer (backend, Django) - NHI team

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 worldwide! 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. You will join the Non Human Identity Governance team. Composed of 6 engineers and a product manager, this team is building new components around NHIs, from detection to breach remediation. You will be at the top of GitGuardian's product innovation. This team has the strategic mission of building our next generation product. Your main mission will be to: Write code on a day to day basis to make our product better. Own the delivery of some projects or features with your team. You collaborate with your PM and other engineers to come up with efficient and resilient implementations. Help to level up the overall engineering department’s by reviewing your peer’s code, mentoring more junior developers, pushing for code quality. Be involved in transverse discussions for engineering: this can be reviewing design that may impact your team’s perimeter, be involved in cross team discussions around our stack and tech decisions. Our technical environment Backend: Python (Django), Rust Frontend: JavaScript (React), TypeScript, React Query, Jest DB: PostgreSQL, MongoDB Observability: Coralogix, Sentry, Grafana Deployment: ArgoCD, GitlabCI, Terraform Runtime: Kubernetes (Karpenter, Istio) Cloud providers: AWS and OVH Message brokering: RabbitMQ, Redis 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: You have at least 5+ years of web software development experience, with a strong Django knowledge (or another Python web development framework like FastAPI or Flask). You are experienced working with the following : web application development, task orchestration, distributed systems, managing big data flows. You have a dynamic and proactive personality. You’re always willing to help your colleagues. You are good at communicating your ideas (written or oral) in English and French. You adapt and can be high level, or deep dive into solutions. The following skills would strengthen your application but aren't required: You have a track record of working with a big monolithic code base, and you know some architecture best practices in such an environment. You have built and operated graph databases with millions of nodes You have worked on a early product 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