Senior Security Engineer
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 way 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.
About The Team
The Internal Security & Tech Ops team is focused on securing our company and, by extension, our customers and their data. We also provide core technology services to Semgrep's employees. We are responsible for securing Semgrep, representing its security posture to our customers, and providing the services and platforms that our employees rely on. Our mission is to move Semgrep's security from good to excellent. We strive to be a group that is approachable and customer-orientated. We value constant improvement, leveraging automation and the latest tools and technologies. Internal Security helps lead our cross-company Security Guild; provides security expertise as part of Semgrep's greater security mission; and partners closely with the Engineering, People Ops and Go-to-Market teams.
About The Role
As a Senior Security Engineer, you will help lead our product-focused security efforts. You will embed with our Engineering teams and take our Cloud and Product Security from good to great. We value candidates who have a strong background in Software Engineering and have a track record of both finding security issues in existing infrastructure and working to bake security into future products. To succeed in this role, you must be a 'builder' as well as a 'breaker'. You Will Lead Internal Security’s work to improve our production security
Embed with our Infrastructure and App Dev teams
Help design, and implement, platform security features
Set our production security priorities, strategy, and roadmap
Create, deploy and operate production security tooling (both custom solutions, as well as third-party tools)
Be one of the primary owners of our internal Semgrep.dev instance
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.