Senior Security Engineer

ABOUT SEMGREP Semgrep, the leader in code security for builders, empowers invention without friction. Teams catch, flag, and fix real issues before they ship, powered by security that learns as they build. Semgrep secures code as it’s written and provides guardrails that pave the road for developers to move fast and stay secure. Built for builders and trusted by security, Semgrep lives where developers work, delivering fixes without breaking flow, and giving security teams visibility, control, and confidence. Semgrep gets smarter as you build, with AI that learns your context to cut false positives and prioritize reachable vulnerabilities, validated by 95% of security reviewers across 6M+ findings. Semgrep makes zero false positives a reality with AppSec teams triaging 80% fewer false positives across Code and Supply Chain, dramatically shrinking the backlog. Founded in San Francisco and backed by Menlo Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital, Semgrep is recognized by Gartner in Application Security Testing and is trusted by leading organizations, including Vanta, Lyft, and Dropbox. Learn more at semgrep.dev http://semgrep.dev. ABOUT THE TEAM The Internal Security & Tech Ops team is focused on securing our company and, by extension, our customers and their data. We also provide core technology services to Semgrep's employees. We are responsible for securing Semgrep, representing its security posture to our customers, and providing the services and platforms that our employees rely on. Our mission is to move Semgrep's security from good to excellent. We strive to be a group that is approachable and customer-orientated. We value constant improvement, leveraging automation and the latest tools and technologies. Internal Security helps lead our cross-company Security Guild; provides security expertise as part of Semgrep's greater security mission; and partners closely with the Engineering, People Ops and Go-to-Market teams. ABOUT THE ROLE As a Senior Security Engineer, you will help lead our product-focused security efforts. You will embed with our Engineering teams and take our Cloud and Product Security from good to great. We value candidates who have a strong background in Software Engineering and have a track record of both finding security issues in existing infrastructure and working to bake security into future products. To succeed in this role, you must be a ‘builder’ as well as a ‘breaker’. You will: - Lead Internal Security’s work to improve our production security - Embed with our Infrastructure and App Dev teams - Help design, and implement, platform security features - Set our production security priorities, strategy, and roadmap - Create, deploy and operate production security tooling (both custom solutions, as well as third-party tools) - Be one of the primary owners of our internal Semgrep.dev http://Semgrep.dev instance You are ideal for this role if you: - Have 7+ years of experience in security engineering or product security roles - Have excellent technical project management and interpersonal skills - Have deep expertise across a variety of security domains; with an emphasis on Cloud Security, Product Security, and Securing Engineering - Are able to be a senior contributor, embedded within our Engineering teams - Enjoy leading technical projects as well as contributing to cross-functional teams - Experienced with securing modern cloud-based applications, with hands on building secure solutions with AWS or GCP primitives This is a hybrid role with the expectation you’ll join us 3+ days per week in our San Francisco, New York, Boston or Denver offices depending on team. Remote employment will be considered for exceptional candidates as well. COMPENSATION Salary Range: $222,000-278,000 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. WHAT WE OFFE