Our goal is to cut through the noise: to make it easy to find and remediate the 20% of vulnerabilities that are actually reachable given the way our customers’ use their dependencies. We work to make supply chain security as simple and intuitive for our users as possible so developers can focus on their own mission.
You'll help Semgrep be the leading application security platform while mentoring junior engineers, collaborating on customer-loved tools, architecting data systems, and helping users understand their security posture. Through Semgrep's culture of transparency, you'll see and influence the decisions that make a startup successful.
You will
Work closely with your product and design partners to create a roadmap for the success of your product that balances iterative changes with big bets
Prioritize and direct your team’s schedule, balancing the needs of developing new technology and internal technical quality
Retain and strengthen engineers with coaching and mentorship, regular feedback, performance reviews, and performance management when necessary
Build an environment of trust that rewards creativity, risk taking, and personal responsibility
Continually grow your team through the hiring of diverse, productive, high-level technical talent
You are ideal for this role if you have
3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams
A strong foundation in product development and bringing products to production via a multi-disciplinary engineering team - including understanding best practices for design, iterative milestone creation, and utilizing customer feedback
Familiarity with agile development principles and iterative milestone development
A strong desire to help engineers and other leaders grow through coaching and mentorship
Nice-Have: You have opinions on Software Composition Analysis, have built a security product before, or have worked at a dev tooling company
You might spend a typical day
Working with your team, product management, and engineering leadership to craft your team’s strategic direction and a strong quarter over quarter roadmap to execute on it
Defining goals within a team meeting to ensure your team is executing on their short term goals week over week while providing them the vision for the future of the product
Coaching a senior engineer, helping them gain the skills needed to lead and mentor other engineers through increasingly difficult projects
Making direct technical contributions to help deliver new features and gain a strong understanding of the work your team is doing
Location expectations
Our expectation is that this role will be hybrid - requiring 3 days a week in our San Francisco office.
COMPENSATION
The estimated starting annual salary range for this position is $197,000- $288,000 . The actual base salary will be determined based on a number of factors, which may include job-related skills, relevant experience, qualifications, location, internal equity, and market data. In addition to base salary, total compensation may include equity, variable compensation, and benefits. We view equity as a meaningful part of our compensation philosophy and a way for employees to share in the long-term value they help create.
Compensation ranges are reviewed regularly and may be adjusted as the role, individual performance, or market conditions evolve.
WHAT WE OFFER (FTE ONLY)
Our goal is to competitively and fairly compensate every Semgrep employee with a system that equally rewards those who are vocal and those who are less comfortable making demands during the final steps of the hiring process. To that end, we generate internal compensation bands that are used when discussing and negotiating salaries. We update these based on market data to make sure they’re above the average for comparable roles.
We invest in our employees’ well-being and long-term success through a competitive, market-aligned benefits program that meets or exceeds local market standards across all of the regions in which we hire. Benefits offerings vary by location to reflect local requirements and norms. For more detailed, location-specific information, please visit Semgrep Benefits https://www.notion.so/semgrep/Semgrep-Benefits-1593009241a88029bd7edf1fed1dfde2.
WHO WE ARE
We bring together people from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines—from physics and philosophy to formal methods research and full-fledged corporations. We’re new parents and new grads, dog lovers and dogfooders. We get together often to bike, bake, and meet up in parks. In our interactions, we believe respect and honesty go hand in hand, and prioritize both.
Semgrep is an equal-opportunity employer seeking a diverse range of backgrounds. We value who you are — including your cultural heritage, your socioeconomic status, your age, your race, your gender, your sexual orientation, your disabilities. We value what’s vitally important to you — your family, your religion, your politics. We value what you love in this world — your music, your weekend pursuits. We believe in welcoming varied professional backgrounds, educations, and interests. If you’re exceptional in your role, believe in Semgrep’s mission, and treat Semgrep’s values as your own, you belong here.
Please Note: For US-based roles open to remote work, we are currently able to hire employees in the following states only: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
