Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Who you are

• 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
• Experience with Chainguard Docker images
• Affinity for developer efficiency and local environment tools such as k3s
• If you think you match at least 70% of these criteria, please apply!

What the job involves

• 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
• 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
• 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

The application process

• Video call with a Talent Acquisition team member
• To discover your professional project and evaluate if there could be a mutual match
• Team interview / Interview with your future manager
• To know more about yourself and your achievements, and present to you the team
• Technical interview
• To evaluate your skills for the position and project yourself into the role
• Final interview with an Executive Manager
• To detail our company’s vision and ambitions for the next couple of years
• 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

• 🌴 A remote-friendly environment up to 3 days / week
• 💸 An attractive package that includes stock-options
• 💻 The latest setup equipment including cool apps, tools and technologies
• 👊 Working to develop a meaningful product → we already helped more than 200k developers!
• 🍺 Lots of team-building activities
• 🚀 Many opportunities for career development in the long term
• 📈 A strong engineering culture
• 🐕 Pet-friendly offices → every Guardian gets to bring their dogs to the office and we love it!
• 👫 Lots of trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication