Senior Software Engineer, Growth

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 Role

As a Senior Growth Engineer within the Product Engineering organization, you'll work at the intersection of product, marketing, and sales to drive user acquisition, activation, retention, and revenue growth. You'll build and optimize experiences that help new users onboard seamlessly, drive product adoption, and improve our ability to convert free users to paying customers. You’ll experiment rapidly, analyze user behavior, and implement changes that scale Semgrep's growth engine.

• Develop and scale growth experiments across the funnel—acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and monetization—using a mix of product, engineering, and data science techniques.
• Build and optimize user experiences that drive self-serve adoption and expand usage within teams.
• Leverage data and analytics to measure user behavior, uncover insights, and identify opportunities for growth.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, RevOps, Marketing, Product, and Engineering teams to lead PLG and SLG motions.
• Automate and enhance workflows for customer acquisition, lead qualification, and sales enablement.
• Contribute to technical growth initiatives, such as in-app experiments, onboarding flows, and usage-based monetization models.
• Owning and improving growth infrastructure, including experimentation platforms, tracking systems, and data pipelines.

You Are Ideal For This Role

• Enthusiasm and experience with experimentation-driven approach to problem-solving
• 4+ years of experience writing production software and building web applications
• Our stack includes Python, TypeScript, and Postgres
• Exposure and experience using AI coding agents/tools
• 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

• Collaborate across engineering teams to drive additional new user registrations and activations by reducing the barrier to try and adopt new AI product features
• Generate personalized security rule sets for use in agentic workflows based on language and security needs
• Build additional monetization capabilities tied to our AI features and future product SKUs to unlock additional revenue generation

Compensation

Hourly Range: $120-$160 per hour. The hourly rate will be determined based on a number of factors, which may include job-related skills, relevant experience, qualifications, location, and market data.

What We Offer (FTE Only)

• Competitive and fair compensation system based on job-related skills, relevant experience, qualifications, location, and market data
• Market-aligned benefits program that meets or exceeds local market standards across all locations

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.

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 Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.