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 its written and provides guardrails that pave the road 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.

Founded in San Francisco and backed by Menlo Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital, Semgrep is recognized by Gartner in Application Security Testing and is trusted by leading organizations, including Snowflake, Dropbox, and Figma. Learn more at semgrep.dev.

About The Team

Semgreps Infrastructure team is responsible for the cloud infrastructure that underpins many of Semgreps internal and external applications, including our flagship products Semgrep Code and Semgrep Supply Chain. Our mission is to enable Semgrepers to effectively and confidently build, run, and manage their systems. We do this by providing a tightly integrated platform for going from code to cloud including CI/CD systems, Kubernetes on AWS cloud environments, and tools for operating software in production.

About The Role

We are looking for a mid or senior-level Infrastructure Engineer who is passionate about building scalable, secure, performant, and reliable infrastructure and data platforms.

You Will

• Work with the team to manage, maintain, develop, and optimize our cloud infrastructure
• Lead major initiatives end-to-end from architecture through implementation and maintenance
• Help set technical and product direction, collaborating with the team to determine the future of the internal platform, what features to build, and how to build them
• Learn from internal users to understand their needs, build solutions that solve their biggest pain points
• Build simple, maintainable, and extensible software systems, platforms, and internal tools
• Ensure continual, high-availability operation of services using modern site-reliability practices, including participation in an on-call rotation
• Advise and mentor other engineers via thoughtful code reviews, pair programming, planning discussions, technical documentation, and formal mentorship
  
  

You Are Ideal For This Role If

• You have 3-6 years of experience developing and operating production software
• You are experienced in Kubernetes clusters and in AWS infrastructure
• You are experienced with infrastructure tools, patterns, and methodologies
• You are passionate about building reliable and secure infrastructure
• You know to work iteratively, fail fast, manage risk, and effectively respond to incidents
• You have experience leading complex initiatives, working across teams, and building new organizational capabilities
• You are a thoughtful mentor and lifelong learner
  
  

Compensation

Salary Range: $160,000-$188,000

Our compensation package includes equity and benefits in addition to salary.

Please note that the range listed is for someone based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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 theyre 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 youre taken care of, and we work with individuals to make sure they have what they need, whether thats 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. Were 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 whats 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 youre exceptional in your role, believe in Semgreps mission, and treat Semgreps 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 Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.