About Semgrep
Semgrep is on a mission to make it expensive to exploit software. As the team behind the most popular SAST, we built the Semgrep AppSec Platform to deliver industry-leading code, dependency, and secrets scanning to enable organizations to ship secure code quickly without slowing down development. With fast, customizable code analysis across large codebases, Semgrep helps teams catch vulnerabilities early and fix them faster. Leading companies like Snowflake, Plaid, Figma, Lyft, and Dropbox rely on Semgrep to secure their software.Semgrep is funded by top investors, including Felicis Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital.
About the team
Semgrep’s Infrastructure team is responsible for the cloud infrastructure that underpins many of Semgrep’s internal and external applications, including our flagship products Semgrep Code and Semgrep Supply Chain. Our mission is to enable Semgrep’ers 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 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 4+ 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-$207,000Our 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 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.
Who we are
We have people from France and the Philippines, physics and philosophy, formal methods research and full fledged corporations. We’re 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 what’s 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 you’re exceptional in your role, believe in Semgrep’s mission, and treat Semgrep’s values as your own, you belong here.
