Senior Software Engineer, Backend Code Team

Senior Software Engineer, Backend Code Team

San Francisco/New York/Boston/Denver

About Semgrep

Our mission is to make world-class software security available to everyone. This means building program analysis tools that are open source, easy to use, powerful, and fast. It also means building a team with security expertise and a passion for great developer experiences. Most of all, it means working with honesty and respect in a diverse community of dreamers and builders.

We’ve redefined static analysis tooling by committing to all of these, and turned our project, Semgrep, into an essential safeguard for code at Snowflake, Dropbox, and more.

About the role

As a backend engineer on Semgrep’s Code team, you’ll build user facing security tools to help people secure the software their developers are writing. Whether it’s through writing tooling to tailor Semgrep to our customers unique codebases, prioritizing customer findings to ensure they see the most actionable things first, or enabling developers to fix findings directly in the IDE workflows before a security ticket is even created, you’ll write the tools to make it faster and easy to keep the code developers are writing secure and fast.

You’ll learn about the application-security space, mentor more junior developers, collaborate with product managers, security researchers, and program analysis engineers to create security tools our customers love, architect systems for storing and maintaining sensitive data, and help us surface that data back to our users to help them understand their individual security posture. Through Semgrep’s culture of transparency, you’ll see and influence the decisions that make a startup successful.

Your decisions 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 on major product initiatives end-to-end, from user-research through design, implementation, and deployment

• Help set technical and product direction, collaborating with the team to determine the future of the product, what features to build, and how to build them

• Learn from users to understand their needs, build products to help keep them secure, and work with them to help them scale their security programs

• Advocate for and develop intuitive, simple, robust APIs that solve a wide variety of complex problems using simple, elegant abstractions

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

• Advise and mentor other engineers via thoughtful code reviews, planning discussions, technical documentation, and formal mentorship

You are ideal for this role if you have:

• 4+ years of experience writing production software and building web applications. Our stack includes Python, React (Type Script), and Postgres

• Excitement about building for customers, learning their needs, iterating fast, and seeing your solutions solve their core problems

• Excellent and proactive communication, both verbal and written

Some examples projects you might work on include:

• Revamp on our registry and editor to make it easier to write new rules to find new vulnerabilities

• Utilize LLMs and other techniques to make clear actionable guidelines to security developers on how to secure their codebases

• Add new features to our IDE experience for the Code product

Compensation

Salary Range : $176,,000 USD

Our compensation package includes equity and benefits in addition to salary.

Please note that the range listed is for someone based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

What we offer

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 also invest in our employees’ well-being and long term success with comprehensive…