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Principal Sales Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 4-7+ years of experience as a technical Sales Engineer in cybersecurity, DevOps, or DevSecOps environments.
  • Solid understanding of modern SDLC concepts, microservices vs. monolithic architectures, and CI/CD.
  • Experience selling to technical teams and discussing software development workflows (SDLC, CI/CD) and architecture.
  • Proven ability to navigate complex enterprise sales cycles and strong project management skills.

Responsibilities

  • Nurture and support extended sales cycles, explaining and demonstrating the platform to multiple stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with Account Executives in the pre-sales phase to help close deals by acting as GitGuardian’s technical voice and product expert.
  • Provide PoC support including technical demos, addressing concerns, and contributing to pipeline generation by running secrets analysis.
  • Architect and build custom workflows for prospective customers to show product value and fit into their environment.

About the company

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GitGuardian

Cybersecurity

***** We're hiring: building an outstanding tech team in Paris right now! Apply here: https://careers.gitguardian.com/ ***** GitGuardian is a cybersecurity startup solving the issue of secrets sprawling through source code, a widespread problem that leads to some credentials ending up in compromised places or even in the public space. The company solves this issue by automating secrets detection for Application Security and Data Loss Prevention purposes. GitGuardian helps developers, ops, security and compliance professionals secure software development, define and enforce policies consistently and globally across all their systems. GitGuardian solutions monitor public and private repositories in real-time, detect secrets and alert to allow investigation and quick remediation. GitGuardian is the number 1 security app on the GitHub Marketplace. Try it for free today: https://dashboard.gitguardian.com/

Company details

Company typeScaleup
IndustryCybersecurity
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

This position is based in the US, specifically on the West Coast.

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.

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!  

Your Mission:

You will nurture and support an extended sales cycle, explaining and demonstrating our platform to numerous stakeholders. You will be a close ally to our Account Executives, working hand in hand to facilitate complex relationships. You have excellent communication and project management skills. 


  • Work closely with Account Executives in pre-sales period, helping to close deals by acting as GitGuardian’s technical voice & product expert.

  • You will provide support for PoCs, performing technical product demos and soothing concerns, as well as support pipeline generation by running secrets analysis.

  • Architect and build out custom workflows for our prospective customers to show them the value of our product and how it will fit into their environment.

  • Post-sales, answering Tier 1 support needs of your existing Enterprise customers.

  • Partner with the Marketing and Product teams to create all the technical collaterals needed for a better understanding of our solutions and of the market’s needs

Who You Are:

  • Significant experience (4-7+ years) as a technical Sales Engineer in a Cybersecurity, DevOps or DevSecOps focused environment. This is a must have.

  • Solid understanding of the modern SDLC, of the difference between microservices and monolithic architecture and of what CI/CD is.

  • You will be selling to technical teams. You must be able to "talk shop" about their daily workflow: specifically how they build software (SDLC), how they deploy it (CI/CD), and how they structure their apps (Microservices).

  • Experience working through complex sales cycles in large Enterprise environments.

  • Well developed project management skills (pre-sales & post-sales periods often involve speaking with multiple stakeholders who work on various teams, either internally or externally). Our ideal candidate will be able to articulate their experience multi-threading.

  • Customer-facing & sales oriented personality.

  • Spanish (and/or Portuguese) speaking skills a plus!

The interview process

1. Video call with a Talent Acquisition team member

To discover your professional projects and evaluate if there could be a mutual match.

2. Team interview: Meet the team and/or your future manager

To know more about yourself and your achievements, and present to you the team.

3. Business case

To work at home and to present to the team.

Objective: to evaluate your skills for the position and project yourself into the role.

4. Final interview with the CEO

Eric will detail our company’s vision and ambitions for the next couple of years.

Benefits

  • 💰 401(k) with Empower, 3% employer match!

  • 🌴 25 days of PTO (employees are strongly encouraged to use all of it!)

  • 🗓️ 10 public holidays

  • 🧘‍♂️ Health, Dental & Vision insurance (80% coverage), for individuals and their families

  • 💡 Short term & long term disability insurance (100% paid)

  • 🌎 Travel policy including to our annual off-sites ('23 was South of France!)

  • 💻 Up to $300 towards your home office set-up

  • 🔌 Monthly remote work stipend $70

  • 🙌 Complimentary access to Talk Space

  • 🤝 Referral bonus of $4000 for any new Guardians we might hire thanks to you

  • 💳 Pre-tax commuter plan access 

More about GitGuardian!

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.

The base salary range for this position is expected to be $190,000-$230,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined on factors such as location, relevant experience, skills, and other qualifications. This range represents the expected base pay for this role; additional compensation may include commissions, equity, and/or other benefits.

GitGuardian is an equal opportunity employer committed to encouraging and celebrating its diverse and inclusive workforce. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.

We welcome all without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender identity and expression, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, citizenship, national origin, disability, military status, veteran status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics. All aspects of employment will be solely based on merit and qualifications related to professional competence. GitGuardian operates on a principle of mutual respect and acceptance, and every employee must follow GitGuardian's anti-harassment and anti-discrimination company policies.

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