About the role

The Frameworks and Services team provides the application-level building blocks that provide a stable foundation for our products here at Semgrep. As the engineering manager for this team, you will reinforce, empower and grow a group of independent, creative, dedicated engineers. 

You’ll learn about the application-security space, meeting with developers and security professionals at organizations ranging from single-person startups to social-media giants. Through Semgrep’s culture of transparency, you’ll see, and influence, the strategic decisions that make a startup successful. You will grow with your team, learning how to foster the development of ever more skilled engineers, to recruit diverse talent, and to build a team that scales as Semgrep is broadly adopted. Your decisions will be key to making Semgrep a world-leading static-analysis project, giving you lasting influence not only at Semgrep, but in the world’s developer community.

You will:

• Continually grow your team through the hiring of diverse, productive, high-level technical talent
• Build an environment of trust that rewards creativity, risk taking, and personal responsibility
• Retain and strengthen engineers with coaching and mentorship, regular feedback and performance reviews, and performance management when necessary
• Listen to and encourage your engineers’ feedback to continually improve your own leadership skills
• Prioritize and direct your team’s schedule, balancing the needs of developing new technology, supporting our open-source community, and fostering internal technical quality; update these priorities to meet the needs of Semgrep as it grows
• Collaborate with other teams and departments at Semgrep to define and deliver a shared strategy, define quantitative metrics that reflect engineering success, and regularly inform executive leadership of departmental plans and needs
• Promote a productive, engaging, diverse, and inclusive culture that embodies Semgrep’s core values

You are ideal for this role if you have:

• Two or more years of experience leading software engineering teams preferably on a platform team.
• A strong desire to help engineers grow
• Solid background in cloud software development tools, technologies, and best practices (AWS, IaC, CI/CD, Observability, Authz, Authn)
• Familiarity with agile development principles

You might spend a typical day:

• Defining goals for a standup to make sure it is productive and on track
• Working with your team, product management, and engineering leadership to prioritize evolving and scaling existing systems and building new features where appropriate
• Working cross-functionally to developing strategy at the quarter and year level
• Meeting weekly with direct reports to conduct 1:1s and with leadership to provide updates
• Hiring and mentoring an intern
• Implementing some of the foundational architecture to set the team up for success

Recent Team Initiatives

• Making it easier for customers to connect their source code systems to our Cloud Platform
• Expanding coverage of existing features like PR comments to additional source code systems
• Launching fine-grained ACLs for enterprises

Compensation

Salary Range: $171,000 - $202,000

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.