Senior DevTools Engineer

About the Team

Dev Tools will be a new discipline under our existing Tech Ops team. Tech Ops’ mission is to ensure Semgrep’s distributed workforce has the right tools to get their job done. We fall under Semgrep Engineering and value automating processes, being transparent, and minimizing friction.

Dev Tools’ focus will be on helping Semgrep build better software, faster, and will be designed to support both our traditional engineers, and our growing cohort of ‘citizen developers’.

Dev Tooling has traditionally been about helping engineers build and ship, but LLMs have minted a whole new cohort of ‘citizen developers’ outside of engineering. At Semgrep these folk have already built apps delivering real value – budget forecasting, customer health monitoring, prospect profiling tools – the list goes on. We want to support these cohorts with AI‑ready tools, processes, and infrastructure — and then get out of their way.

You’re right for this role if you’ve seen the good, bad, and ugly of developer experiences and you want to have a shot at using LLMs to apply those lessons. This role requires a mix of skills across developer tooling, LLMs, cloud infrastructure, technical operations, and security. We don't expect deep experience across all of these, but we do want someone who is keen to tackle them all.

You will:

• Design, build, and help manage our cloud-build environments – and make them ready for agentic development. We’re moving development off laptops and into centralized environments and we want to take the opportunity to improve both developer experience and security.

• Build the golden path for our citizen developers
  . LLMs have meant a broad swath of non-engineers want to build and deploy apps. You’ll build the infrastructure to help them do it in a way that provides security, reliability, and redundancy.

• Help get our existing developer processes ‘AI‑ready’. You’ll partner with Engineering to make sure our tools and codebases are fit for agentic workflows and help build and deploy developer tooling, infrastructure and processes to support this.

• Bridge Engineering, Security, and Tech Ops
  , and be the person who ensures our development processes fit the demands of all three of these stakeholders.

You are ideal for this role if:

• You have 5+ years of software engineering. We want to see significant experience in developer tooling, software engineering or infrastructure engineering roles.

• You’ve owned real cloud infrastructure. We expect experience designing, deploying and maintaining AWS (or GCP) infrastructure that handles real‑world loads.

• You have opinionated takes on improving Dev Ex. We want someone who has seen the good and the ugly, and is ready to apply those lessons.

• You’re AI‑pilled or keen to experiment
  . That’s basically where we are, so let’s all go experiment with this Agentic stuff.

• You’re comfortable with Python and Type Script. This is what your customers will be shipping.

• You’re service‑orientated. Semgrep employees will be your customers.

And some ‘nice to haves’:

• Cloud security, container security, and supply chain threats.
• Semgrep Code (or other SAST tooling)
• Semgrep Supply Chain (or other SCA tools)

The estimated starting annual salary range for this position is $163,000 to $246,500 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.

Compensation ranges are reviewed regularly and may be adjusted as the role, individual performance, or market conditions evolve.

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…