Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About Semgrep

Semgrep, the leader in code security for builders, empowers invention without friction. Teams catch, flag, and fix real issues before they ship, powered by security that learns as they build. Semgrep secures code as it’s written and provides guardrails that pave the road for developers to move fast and stay secure. Semgrep gets smarter as you build, with AI that learns your context to cut false positives and prioritize reachable vulnerabilities, validated by 95% of security reviewers across 6M+ findings.

Semgrep makes zero false positives a reality with App Sec teams triaging 80% fewer false positives across Code and Supply Chain, dramatically shrinking the backlog.

Founded in San Francisco and backed by Menlo Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital, Semgrep is recognized by Gartner in Application Security Testing and is trusted by leading organizations, including Snowflake, Dropbox, and Figma. Learn more .

Semgrep’s Infrastructure team is responsible for the cloud infrastructure that underpins many of Semgrep’s internal and external applications, including our flagship products Semgrep Code and Semgrep Supply Chain. Our mission is to enable Semgrep’ers to effectively and confidently build, run, and manage their systems. We do this by providing a tightly integrated platform for going “from code to cloud” including CI/CD systems, Kubernetes on AWS cloud environments, and tools for operating software in production.

You’ll learn about the application-security space, collaborate with other engineers on the Infrastructure team to create a robust platform, and build distributed systems that are secure, reliable, and performant. Through Semgrep’s culture of transparency, you’ll see and influence the decisions that make a startup successful. Your decisions and work will be key to making Semgrep a world-leading static-analysis project, giving you lasting influence not only at Semgrep, but in the world’s developer community.

You will:

• Work with senior and staff engineers on the team to design, implement, and deploy Infrastructure initiatives

• Learn and execute infrastructure best practices alongside other members of the team

• Own projects, platforms, and specific tools within the team on the order of multiple weeks in scope, from design through maintenance

• Become a Subject Mater Expert (SME) in Kubernetes and AWS administration

• Collaborate with the team to determine the future of the internal platform, what features to build, and how to build them

• Ensure continual, high-availability operation of services using modern site-reliability practices, including participation in an on-call rotation

You are ideal for this role if you have:

• You have 2+ years of software engineering experience

• You have an aptitude for learning infrastructure tools, patterns, and best practices

• You have worked with or used Kubernetes clusters and AWS infrastructure

• You are familiar with infrastructure tools, patterns, and methodologies

• You are passionate about building reliable and secure infrastructure

• You have excellent and proactive communication, both verbal and written

Some examples projects you might work on include:

• Working with the team to own critical infrastructure component upgrades

• Working with the team on strategic infrastructure initiatives, such as migration and expansion of cloud services

• Participating in our oncall rotation, to include leading debugging, implementing mitigations, and running postmortems to resolve issues thoroughly

Location:

Hybrid (3 days/week) out of one of our hub locations( Boston, Denver, NYC, SF)

• Compensation:

  • The estimated starting annual salary range for this position is $128,500-$161,000 USD. 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.
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