SRE Engineering Manager

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.

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