Senior Software Engineer- Frameworks and Services - Tbwa Chiat/Day : Job Details

San Francisco/New York/Boston/Denver

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.

As a member of the Frameworks & Services team, you'll create the fundamental building blocks that help customers use our products effectively and handle the foundational software that enables other software engineers at Semgrep to be successful. Areas of focus include authentication and authorization, abstractions for interacting with various source code systems (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Azure DevOps), and services that configure Semgrep scans and process their results.

You'll learn about the application-security space, mentor more junior developers, collaborate with product managers and other engineers to create stable, robust platforms; and architect distributed systems that are secure, reliable, and performant. Through Semgrep's culture of transparency, you'll see and influence decisions that make a startup successful. Your decisions will be key to making Semgrep a world-leading static-analysis solution, giving you lasting influence not only on Semgrep, but on the world's developer community.

You will:

• Work on major initiatives end-to-end, from investigation through design, implementation, and deployment
• 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
• Architect and build elegant, maintainable, extensible software systems
• Learn from internal and external users to understand their needs, build solutions that solve their biggest pain points
• Advocate for and develop intuitive, simple, robust APIs that solve a wide variety of complex problems using simple, elegant abstractions
• 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, planning discussions, technical documentation, and formal mentorship
• Work with urgency, understanding that your impact generates immediate value for customers
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and security researchers to build the best product possible

You are ideal for this role if you have:

• Excitement about building for internal and external customers, learning their needs, iterating fast, and seeing your solutions solve their core problems
• Comprehensive full stack experience up and down the stack
• Excellent and proactive communication, both verbal and written

Some examples projects you might work on include:

• Implementing Role-Based Access Control
• Developing unified APIs that provide functionality like posting comments and fetching file contents across several source control systems
• Scaling the systems that power Semgrep scans while improving their performance and fault-tolerance characteristics
• Rethinking the Semgrep rule registry web app

• Salary Range: $166,000-$196,000 USD for SF Bay Area, NYC, Boston
• Our compensation package includes generous equity and benefits in addition to salary.

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.

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.

We have people from various backgrounds and experiences. We're new parents and new grads, aspiring authors and aspiring Americans, dog lovers and dogfooders. 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 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.

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