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.
The Semgrep Analysis Foundations team owns the core analysis engine that underlies our products, including language parsing, performance, developer experience, release and distribution, and our IDE extension and MCP server. We’re looking for someone to focus on improving our release and CI by automating our current manual release process, maturing our build processes, and improving our tests. You would also help us scale to ever-larger enterprise customers, improving our observability and working with the infrastructure and managed scanning teams to scan faster and more reliability. However, the team is always focused on the company’s top priorities, and that means what you work on will vary across all the things the team does. If that’s exciting to you, you’re perfect for the role!
You will:
- Ensure that our changes are released frequently and reliably through a number of distribution methods, including pip, homebrew, and docker
- Build tooling that allows us to support our users more effectively when they encounter problems
- Advocate for architectural decisions that make our code easy to reason about and allow us to scale with an exponentially growing number of users
- Help set the technical roadmap for our foundational analysis, listening to our users as well as program analysis engineers and security researchers across the company
- 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 experience in infrastructure, devops, platform engineering, or a similar field
- Interest in code analysis. If you’ve ever spent time studying how your interpreter, compiler, linter, or garbage collector works, come work with us!
- Experience working in Python and interest in learning a functional programming language (OCaml)
- Excellent and proactive communication, both verbal and written
Some examples projects you could work on include:
- Improve our Opentelemetry-based observability tooling to reduce the time taken to identify the root cause of bugs found when analyzing customers’ code
- In partnership with our Managed Scanning team, propose and lead the implementation of a release process that reduces release cycles from weekly to daily or continuously for most users
- Implement OAuth for authentication for our MCP server
- Optimize how Semgrep infers the relationships between functions to speed up dataflow analysis
- Build a robust performance testing platform that allows every change to be confidently verified for performance regressions
Salary Range: $166,000-207,000 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 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.
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Semgrep Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Office
1 Broadway 14th Floor, Cambridge, MA, United States, 02142
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