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.
The Senior Technical Account Manager (TAM) is a critical role that services Semgrep’s most important customers. Our TAMs drive the implementation and on-going adoption of Semgrep for their book of business. This Senior TAM will partner with our customers to ensure the value of using our platform is met by creating personalized growth plans for each account, de-escalating urgent situations that create churn risk, being an expert for their account, representing the voice of the customer for product improvements, and delivering executive business reviews to both practitioners and executive audiences. This customer-facing role also partners with many teams across Semgrep - including Sales, Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, and Support.
Location: The ideal candidate lives within driving distance of one of our Hub locations:
- San Francisco, CA
- New York, NY
- Denver, CO
Department: Technical Success
Prior experience in a fast-paced tech environment is helpful, but we are more interested in your problem solving skills than your pedigree. So if this opportunity excites you but you don’t meet the exact requirements, apply anyway!
What you’ll do- Host monthly check-in’s with customers to understand their successes and challenges
- Speak with technical stakeholders within our customer base and internally within Semgrep
- Create personalized success plans for customers to ensure they grow the value of using our platform
- Partner with Sales to host executive business reviews with practitioners and the executive buyers
- Collaborate with Tech Support to resolve bug tickets, and with Product to submit and follow up on feature requests
- Advocate on behalf of your customers for product roadmap items to evolve our product suite and features
- De-escalate urgent issues that may introduce churn risk
- Evolve our best practices to deliver exceptional service to our customers
- Contribute to documentation to widen the available information for how to use our products
- 3+ years of experience working in a customer facing role - prior experience as a Technical Account Manager, Account Manager, or Product Manager for a highly technical product is preferred
- Experience with Big 4 Consulting is preferred, but not required.
- A deep understanding of developer workflows and build systems, including CI / CD environments such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Circle CI, Jenkins, and Buildkite and SCM environments such as Git, SVN, Perforce etc.
- Strategic thinker with deep customer empathy; ability to create and execute plans to grow accounts
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence with an executive presence
- Familiarity with Web Application Security concepts including OWASP Top 10.
- A background or genuine interest in DevSecOps or AppSec
- Engineering or technical degree from a four year college or university
Salary Range: $127,000 - $165,000
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 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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