<div><h3><strong>About Semgrep</strong></h3> <p>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.</p></div><h3>About the role</h3> <p>You will lead the team of Security Researchers responsible for driving the coverage through rules for Secrets, Code, and Supply Chain: across all of our products. This team owns:</p> <ul> <li>Writing high-quality detection rules</li> <li>Advancing research and automation to make rule writing faster and more accurate</li> <li>Measuring and improving the overall quality and coverage of detections</li> </ul> <p>As the Manager of the Security Research Coverage team, you’ll report to the Head of Security Research. You’ll set the roadmap, partner with Product Management to focus on the most impactful detection areas, and drive continuous improvements in both accuracy and breadth of our vulnerability coverage. Success in this role means leading a team that delivers world-class detections, scales rule generation through automation and AI, and pushes the boundaries of what modern vulnerability research can achieve.</p> <h3>You will:</h3> <ul> <li>Hire, develop, and grow the team, cultivating a productive, engaging, diverse, and inclusive work environment that aligns with Semgreps core values</li> <li>Work closely with product management, sales, and product development teams across all product lines</li> <li>Understand, measure, and elevate the velocity and quality of Semgrep detection rule delivery</li> <li>Prioritize your team’s work and schedules, balancing current product needs with strategic research that will help scale the team through AI and automation</li> <li>Contribute to the technical direction and to the research (depending on your profile)</li> <li>Directly impact the security posture of many customers by improving the quality of our detection</li> </ul> <h3>You are ideal for this role if you have:</h3> <ul> <li>2+ years experience as a People Manager</li> <li>5+ years experience as a Tech Lead in the Security space: App Sec Engineer, Security Researcher, Vulnerability Researcher, etc</li> <li>Comfortable working in a fast-paced environments where prototypes are rapidly iterated or discarded</li> <li>Comfortable tech leading and mentoring Security Researchers</li> <li>Excellent proactive communication skills, both verbal and written</li> <li>Fit in our low-ego high-impact culture</li> <li>Excitement about building for customers, iterating fast, and seeing solutions solve real developer problems</li> <li>Curiosity and a love of new technologies, especially AI/ML</li> <li>Comfortable writing code, especially in Python or Rust</li> </ul> <h3>Some example projects you might work on include:</h3> <ul> <li>Improve and scale Semgrep’s automated pipelines for generating and validating high-confidence detection rules</li> <li>Lead a team to identify and analyze vulnerability patterns (CVEs or from first-principle) across languages and ecosystems, and turn those into detection rules. Example: Improve supply chain reachability product for a given language, Code product can report security issues that cross the Android JNI interfaces, etc.</li> <li>Put in place unified measurements for performance of detection to ensure the best quality across our customers</li> </ul> <p>Salary Range: $160,000 - $208,000</p> <p>Our compensation package includes equity and benefits in addition to salary.</p> <p>Please note that the range listed is for someone based in the San Francisco Bay Area.</p><div><h3><strong>What we offer</strong></h3> <p><span>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.</span></p> <p><span>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.</span></p> <h3><strong>Who we are</strong></h3> <p><span>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.</span></p> <p><span>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.</span></p> <p><span>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.</span></p></div>