Entry Level -Software Developer - Web Development

GitGuardian · Remote, United States

About GitGuardian

GitGuardian is a global cybersecurity scale-up. 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!
The Sources Squad connects GitGuardian to the platforms our customers want to protect, from GitHub and GitLab to Slack, Jira and AWS. As the number of customers, sources and data grows, our challenge is to maintain high reliability and ensure continuous protection.
Youll join a team of 6 engineers (5 backend and 1 frontend) and an Engineering Manager, working closely with a Product Manager, a Designer and a Staff Engineer.
Youll help scale our integrations, strengthen system resilience and observability, and improve the user experience around source and scan management. Youll work on a large-scale Django application with a high level of ownership, from technical design through deployment and production monitoring. We encourage initiative, collaboration, technical excellence, and the everyday use of AI and agentic engineering, while ensuring that everyone takes ownership of the code they ship.
Backend: Python (Django) 90%, Rust 10%
Frontend: JavaScript (React), TypeScript, React Query, Jest
DB: PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Deployment: ArgoCD, GitLab CI, Terraform
Cloud providers: AWS and OVH
5+ years of experience in web development, with strong, recent production experience in Python and Django: ORM performance, transactions, migrations on large tables, SQL optimization
~ Solid software engineering fundamentals: clean, tested code, sound data structures, care for performance, methodical debugging
~ The ability to own a project or feature end-to-end: from scoping with Product and Design, to technical design, implementation, deployment, and monitoring
~ Strong proficiency in AI-assisted and agentic development workflows, while staying accountable for every line you ship
~ Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to move from high-level discussions to deep technical dives

The following skills would strengthen your application but arent required:
Experience with distributed systems, async pipelines and third-party API integrations (rate limits, pagination, webhooks, retries and idempotency)
Experience with a large monolithic codebase, and an interest in refactoring and building reliable systems
Ability to push a simple feature all the way to the frontend (React / TypeScript)
Video call with a Talent Acquisition team member
To discover your professional project and evaluate if there could be a mutual match.
To evaluate your skills for the position and project yourself into the role.
Understand how GitGuardian works in this short video!
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
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 GitGuardians platform.
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!
We are also agile, remote-friendly, and fun people to work with.
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. We appreciate your willingness to share this with us so that we can continue to improve our diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.