Backend Software Engineer, Frameworks and Services

About Semgrep

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.

About the role

As a member of the Frameworks & Services team, you’ll create fundamental building blocks that handle common concerns for other software engineers at Semgrep and help customers to adopt and use our products more effectively. Areas of focus include authentication and authorization, abstractions for interacting with various source code systems (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket), and services that configure Semgrep scans and process their results.

You’ll learn about the application-security space, collaborate with product managers and other engineers to create stable robust platform, and build distributed systems that are secure, reliable, and performant. 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 initiatives end-to-end, from investigation through design, implementation, and deployment
• Collaborate with the team to determine the future of the internal platform, what features to build, and how to build them
• Learn from internal and external users to understand their needs, build solutions that solve their biggest pain points
• 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:

• 2+ years of experience writing production software and building web applications. Our stack includes Python, Javascript, and Postgres on AWS with Kubernetes
• Excitement about building for internal and external 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:

• Building out our public APIs to enable our customers to automate everything they do with our products
• Streamlining our authentication framework to simplify setup and maintenance
• Make order-of-magnitude performance and scalability improvements in the API and database layers

Location:

Looking for candidates who can ideally work 2-3 days/week out of either our SF/Boston/NYC/Denver offices

Compensation

• Salary Range: $145,000-$171,000 USD for SF Bay Area, NYC, Boston
• Our compensation package includes generous equity and benefits in addition to salary.

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.

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.