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.
At Semgrep, we take a different angle when it comes to our sales development and go-to-market approach. We lean on performance data and metrics to build out our demand generation and sales programs. As an Outbound Sales Development Representative, you will directly grow sales pipeline by prospecting into new accounts. In collaboration with the AE team, you will maintain and nurture relationships with existing customers and you will partner with Marketing and the Account Executives to kick off new customer relationships.
Location expectations:
- Our expectation is that this role will be hybrid - requiring 3 days a week in our San Francisco office
Prior experience in a fast-paced, tech environment is helpful, but we are more interested in your skills than your pedigree. So if this opportunity excites you but you don’t meet the exact requirements, apply anyway!
What you’ll do- Follow standardized processes and tactics in order to: generate interest, qualify, and convert a high volume of marketing leads into prospective customers and generate sales-ready meetings and opportunities for Account Executives.
- Achieve and push the limits of your quota, territory revenue, and growth objectives
- Provide accurate lead distribution and thorough discovery to your assigned Account Executives
- Identify and analyze target prospects based on market, firmographic, and product signals
- Utilize Semgrep’s systems and sales enablement tools - such as Salesforce, LinkedIn, and Outreach for prospecting
- Establish relationships with key stakeholders within Semgrep’s target accounts
- 1+ year of experience in a quota based Sales or Business Development role
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills
- You are a self-starter with the ability to learn and follow standardized processes in a fast-paced sales organization
- A growth mindset and are able to act on feedback quickly
- Strong organization and time-management skills as you’ll be working with hundreds of prospects simultaneously
Nice to Haves
- Technical/engineering degree or experience
- Experience driving enterprise demand for a freemium, bottoms-up, or open source business
Salary Range: $66,500 - $73,500 ($95,000 - $105,000 uncapped OTE)
Our compensation package includes equity and benefits in addition to OTE.
Please note that the range listed is for someone based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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 areWe 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.
Semgrep Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Semgrep and has not been reviewed or approved by Semgrep.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for technical roles, and postings describe a formal, transparent banded compensation system. This structure signals process and fairness around offers and total compensation.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is positioned as unlimited PTO with an explicit expectation to take at least 3+ weeks. The company publicly emphasizes taking time, not just offering it in policy.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage is offered for employees and dependents. This is presented as part of a solid, standard U.S. tech‑startup benefits package.
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What We Do
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.
Why Work With Us
At Semgrep, we’re a diverse team of curious, driven people—from physicists to philosophers—building tools that make software safer. We value honesty, respect, and inclusion, and believe belonging fuels innovation. Join us to do meaningful work, grow fast, and be your full self.
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