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 member of the Frameworks & Services team, you’ll create fundamental building blocks that handle common concerns for other software engineers at Semgrep and help customers to adopt and use our products more effectively. Areas of focus include authentication and authorization, abstractions for interacting with various source code systems (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket), and services that configure Semgrep scans and process their results.
You’ll learn about the application-security space, mentor more junior developers, collaborate with product managers and other engineers to create stable robust platform, and architect distributed system 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 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 initiatives end-to-end, from investigation through design, implementation, and deployment
- Help set technical and product direction, collaborating with the team to determine the future of the internal platform, what features to build, and how to build them
- Learn from internal and external users to understand their needs, build solutions that solve their biggest pain points
- 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, Javascript, and Postgres on AWS with Kubernetes
- Excitement about building for internal and external 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 Role-Based Access Control
- Developing unified APIs that provide functionality like posting comments and fetching file contents across a several source control systems
- Scaling the systems that power Semgrep scans while improving their performance and fault-tolerance characteristics
This role must come in office 2-3 days per week to either or San Francisco, Boston or New York locations.
Compensation
Salary Range: $166,000-196,000 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.
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.
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What We Do
Our mission is profoundly improving software security and reliability. We believe that security is an economic problem. Cost of exploitation is inherently low and returns are high. We provide simple and consistent tooling which are built with a developer first mindset.
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