Job description
About Semgrep
Semgrep is on a mission to make it expensive to exploit software. As the team behind the most popular SAST, we built the Semgrep AppSec Platform to deliver industry-leading code, dependency, and secrets scanning to enable organizations to ship secure code quickly without slowing down development.
With fast, customizable code analysis across large codebases, Semgrep helps teams catch vulnerabilities early and fix them faster. Leading companies like Snowflake, Plaid, Figma, Lyft, and Dropbox rely on Semgrep to secure their software.
Semgrep is funded by top investors, including Felicis Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital.
About the role
As a backend engineer on the Semgrep Managed Scanning team (SMS), you’ll build systems that help our customers seamlessly adopt Semgrep and are the beating heart of the company - our scanning infrastructure. Our team’s mission is to provide a best-in-class scanning experience while continually improving the usability, speed, and reliability of our products. We are responsible for the systems that drive the lifecycle of a Semgrep scan from scheduling through execution to storage and processing of findings. On this team you’ll have an opportunity to work across several layers of our stack including our task processing systems and various web service backends. You’ll play a key role in architecting and implementing Elasticsearch as a new layer in our infrastructure, building the search and analytics capabilities that will power the next generation of our findings storage and retrieval systems.
Additionally, you’ll learn about the application-security space, mentor more junior developers, collaborate with product managers and other engineers to create security tools our customers love, architect systems for storing and maintaining sensitive data, and help us surface those 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:
- 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
- Plan and execute major initiatives end-to-end, from design, through to implementation, and deployment
- Ensure continual, high-availability operation of services using modern site-reliability practices, including detailed observability and 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:
- 6+ years of experience writing production software and building web applications. Our stack includes Python, Go, Postgres, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and more.
- Experience developing task-based workloads on top of Kubernetes, or similar frameworks.
- 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:
- Implementing dynamic Kubernetes resource tuning for scans
- Reducing scan start latency to improve customer scan experience
- Implementation of Elasticsearch to reduce latency of search workloads
Compensation
- Salary Range: $202,000-238,000 USD for SF Bay Area and NYC
- Our compensation package includes generous equity and benefits in addition to salary.
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 health plans, generous vacation time, 401k, learning stipends, and more. Our benefits are for everyone, so that you’re taken care of, and we work with individuals to make sure they have what they need, whether that’s quiet work space, adjusted hours, or something else.
Who we are
We have people from France and the Philippines, physics and philosophy, formal methods research and full fledged corporations. We’re new parents and new grads, aspiring authors and aspiring Americans, 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 Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.
