Software Engineer- Supply Chain

Semgrep, Inc; Town of Boston (NY); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a backend engineer to join their Supply Chain team. In this role, you will build customer-facing tools to enhance software security by addressing vulnerabilities in dependencies. You will collaborate with a diverse team, learning from senior engineers and product managers while influencing the development of essential security tools. This position promises an engaging environment where your contributions will have a significant impact on the developer community. If you're passionate about security and eager to make a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Equity

Comprehensive health plans

Generous vacation time

401k

Learning stipends

Qualifications

• Excitement about building for customers and iterating fast.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Work on product initiatives from user-research to deployment.
• Develop APIs that solve complex problems with simple abstractions.
• Ensure high-availability operation of services.

Skills

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

API Development

Site Reliability Engineering

Job description

San Francisco, New York, Boston, or Denver

About Semgrep

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 backend engineer on Semgrep’s Supply Chain team, you’ll build 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 file through 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 2% 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 learn about the application-security space, shadow more senior engineers, collaborate with product managers and other engineers to create security tools our customers love, architect systems for storing and maintaining sensitive data, and help us surface those data back to our users to help them understand their individual security posture. 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 product initiatives end-to-end, from user-research through design, implementation, and deployment
• Learn from users to understand their needs, build products to help keep them secure, and work with them to help them scale their security programs
• 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

You are ideal for this role if you have:

• Excitement about building for 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:

• Identify which of a user’s dependencies would fix the highest number of downstream vulnerabilities when upgraded
• Identify and filter which of a user’s dependencies/vulnerabilities are actually applicable in their production environments
• Collect and expose health metrics on open source dependencies to help keep users’ software free of poorly maintained, low quality, and malicious packages
• Flag vulnerable dependencies in developer IDEs as they are used and prevent them from ever making it to production

Location:

This role does require candidates to be onsite in either our SF or NYC office 2-3 times per week.

Compensation

Salary Range: $145,500 - $171,000

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 offer

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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