Senior Engineering Manager

Semgrep; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental plan

Vision plan

Unlimited PTO

401(k)

Job summary

Semgrep, the leader in code security, is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager for the software supply chain team. You will lead a team building customer-facing tools to help developers secure dependencies and reduce noise from vulnerabilities.

You’ll mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design, and define a roadmap balancing new tech with quality. This hybrid role requires 3 days in our San Francisco office or our NYC office.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams.
• Strong foundation in product development and bringing products to production.
• Familiarity with agile development principles.
• A strong desire to help engineers and other leaders grow through coaching and mentorship.
• Experience with Software Composition Analysis or security products is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define a roadmap for the product that balances iterative changes with big bets.
• Direct your team’s schedule, balancing new technology and internal quality.
• Mentor engineers with regular feedback and performance discussions.
• Contribute technically to deliver new features and understand the work your team does.
• Hire diverse, high-level technical talent to grow the team.

Skills

lead software engineering teams

product development

agile development

coaching & mentoring

security product experience

dev tooling knowledge

Job description

Join our team at Semgrep and play an integral role in shaping the future of software analysis and security.

We run a mixed model — co-located in some geographies and distributed in others.

We think that our culture is more about what we value, who we bring on board, and the quality of our work rather than just being stuck in the same office space. But hey, we do enjoy hanging out with each other and we like to encourage our teams to get together every now and then throughout the year.

Our HQ is located in downtown SF, easily accessible by public transit.

New York

Our satellite office in the Big Apple is small, but mighty.

Remote + Hybrid

Enjoy the flexibility and convenience of working from home or wherever you work best.

We look for upside, asking "What can go right?" rather than “What can go wrong?”. We question everything and relentlessly look for the big opportunities to serve our users, impact our mission, and improve ourselves.

We offer health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents.

Unlimited PTO

We work hard so it’s important to recharge. Time off is mandated and at least 3+ weeks is encouraged.

We offer retirement plans, including 401(k), for investing in your future.

Senior Engineering Manager, Software Supply Chain Security

Location

San Francisco, Boston, New York, Denver

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

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.

About the role

As an EM for Semgrep's supply chain team, you’ll lead a team building customer-facing tools to help developers secure their software from vulnerabilities introduced by dependencies. Other supply chain management tools exist, but they produce far too much noise to be useful or efficient. Security teams may review thousands of vulnerabilities, informing developers that hundreds of their dependencies have introduced critical vulnerabilities and need updating, when in reality they are not even using those dependencies in a vulnerable way. Perhaps you’ve even felt this pain yourself!

Our goal is to cut through the noise: to make it easy to find and remediate the 20% of vulnerabilities that are actually reachable given the way our customers’ use their dependencies. We work to make supply chain security as simple and intuitive for our users as possible so developers can focus on their own mission.

You’ll help Semgrep be the leading application security platform while mentoring junior engineers, collaborating on customer-loved tools, architecting data systems, and helping users understand their security posture. Through Semgrep’s culture of transparency, you’ll see and influence the decisions that make a startup successful.

You will:

Work closely with your product and design partners to create a roadmap for the success of your product that balances iterative changes with big bets

Prioritize and direct your team’s schedule, balancing the needs of developing new technology and internal technical quality

Retain and strengthen engineers with coaching and mentorship, regular feedback, performance reviews, and performance management when necessary

Build an environment of trust that rewards creativity, risk taking, and personal responsibility

Continually grow your team through the hiring of diverse, productive, high-level technical talent

You are ideal for this role if you have:

3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams

A strong foundation in product development and bringing products to production via a multi-disciplinary engineering team - including understanding best practices for design, iterative milestone creation, and utilizing customer feedback

Familiarity with agile development principles and iterative milestone development

A strong desire to help engineers and other leaders grow through coaching and mentorship

You have opinions on Software Composition Analysis, have built a security product before, or have worked at a dev tooling company

You might spend a typical day:

Working with your team, product management, and engineering leadership to craft your team’s strategic direction and a strong quarter over quarter roadmap to execute on it

Defining goals within a team meeting to ensure your team is executing on their short term goals week over week while providing them the vision for the future of the product

Coaching a senior engineer, helping them gain the skills needed to lead and mentor other engineers through increasingly difficult projects

Making direct technical contributions to help deliver new features and gain a strong understanding of the work your team is doing

Our expectation is that this role will be hybrid - requiring 3 days a week in our San Francisco office or our NYC office.

Compensation

The estimated starting annual salary range for this position is $197,000- $288,000 . The actual base salary will be determined based on a number of factors, which may include job-related skills, relevant experience, qualifications, location, internal equity, and market data. In addition to base salary, total compensation may include equity, variable compensation, and benefits. We view equity as a meaningful part of our compensation philosophy and a way for employees to share in the long-term value they help create.

Compensation ranges are reviewed regularly and may be adjusted as the role, individual performance, or market conditions evolve.

What we offer (FTE only)

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 invest in our employees’ well-being and long-term success through a competitive, market-aligned benefits program that meets or exceeds local market standards across all of the regions in which we hire. Benefits offerings vary by location to reflect local requirements and norms. For more detailed, location-specific information, please visit Semgrep Benefits.

Who we are

We bring together people from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines—from physics and philosophy to formal methods research and full-fledged corporations. We’re new parents and new grads, 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 Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.