Senior SRE (Self-hosted)
Paris · Full time · Posted 2MO AGO
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
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.
You’ll join a team of 3 Senior SREs and an Engineering Manager, working closely with a highly technical Product Manager. Together, the team is responsible for ensuring the development, reliability, security, and quality of our self-hosted services and 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.
Monitor and enhance our GitLab CI infrastructure.
Develop and maintain the infrastructure that serves our developers' test environment (review-apps).
Helping engineering teams create and maintain new self-hosted services.
Contribute to new product deployments
Advocate DevOps 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/Gateway API
Terraform
GitLab CI
ArgoCD
Review apps (per-branch isolated test environments)
Backend: Python, Django
Postgresql
ClickHouse
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, developers’ endpoints scanning). 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:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, or a related field.
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).
Fluency in AI agentic development.
French and English fluency.
The following skills would strengthen your application but aren't required:
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 Talent Acquisition team member
To discover your professional project and evaluate if there could be a mutual match.
2. Team interview / Interview with your future manager
To know more about yourself and your achievements, and present to you the team.
3. Technical interview
To evaluate your skills for the position and project yourself into the role.
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 stock-options
🍜 Sponsored lunch vouchers (Swile)
👟 Sponsored Wellpass (gymlib)
🏥 Non-charged health insurance for children (Sidecare / Generali)
💻 Up to €300 to improve your home office set-up
🌴 Yearly holiday allowance
🎡 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)
🤖 Full, company-wide access to cutting-edge AI tools to stay ahead of the curve
📈 Opportunities for career development in the long term
🤝 Referral bonus of 4000€ for any new Guardian we might hire thanks to you
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
Products
Understand how GitGuardian works in this short video!
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.
Our solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers in all industries and GitGuardian platform is the n°1 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.
You will get trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication and a strong impact on the company development.
