Staff Backend Software Engineer

About the role

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll work on our backend and infrastructure systems to design, build and maintain a fast and reliable user experience for our customers. You’ll collaborate with other engineers to develop the APIs, data models and services that power Semgrep’s products at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend and infrastructure systems to ensure a fast and reliable user experience for Semgrep’s customers.
• Collaborate with other engineers to develop APIs, data models, and services that power Semgrep’s products at scale.
• Integrate third-party vendors into existing first-party code.
• Work with databases, query optimization, and distributed systems.

Requirements

• A strong understanding of databases, query optimization, and distributed systems.
• Comfortable integrating third-party vendors into existing first-party code.
• Experience with Typescript and React on the Frontend, Python, Flask and SQLAlchemy on the Backend, and deployment via Kubernetes and hosting on AWS.

Qualifications

• Strong technical background in software engineering.
• Experience with backend development and cloud platforms like Kubernetes and AWS.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly.

Skills

• Typescript
• React
• Python
• Flask
• SQLAlchemy
• Kubernetes
• AWS

Benefits

We offer a competitive and fair compensation system that equally rewards vocal and less vocal employees. Our benefits program includes a variety of offerings that meet or exceed local market standards across all regions where we hire. For more details, please visit Semgrep Benefits.

Pay

The estimated starting annual salary range for this position is $230,000 to $288,000 USD. The actual base salary will be determined based on a number of factors, including job-related skills, relevant experience, qualifications, location, internal equity, and market data. In addition to base salary, total compensation may include equity, variable compensation, and benefits.

Schedule

This is a hybrid role with the expectation you’ll join us 3+ days per week in our San Francisco, New York, Boston or Denver offices depending on team. Remote employment will be considered for exceptional candidates as well.