Senior DevTools Engineer

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 it’s 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 Vanta, Lyft, and Dropbox. Learn more at semgrep.dev.

About the Team

DevTools will be a new discipline under our existing TechOps team. TechOps’ mission is to ensure Semgrep’s distributed workforce has the right tools to get their job done. We fall under Semgrep Engineering and value automating processes, being transparent, and minimising friction.

DevTools’ focus will be on helping Semgrep build better software, faster, and will be designed to support both our traditional engineers, and our growing cohort of‘citizen developers’.

About the Role

DevTooling has traditionally been about helping engineers build and ship, but LLMs have minted a whole new cohort of ‘citizen developers’ outside of engineering. At Semgrep these folk have already built apps delivering real value – budget forecasting, customer health monitoring, prospect profiling tools – the list goes on. We want to support these cohorts with AI-ready tools, processes, and infrastructure — and then get out of their way.

You’re right for this role if you’ve seen the good, bad, and ugly of developer experiences and you want to have a shot at using LLMs to apply those lessons. This role requires a mix of skills across developer tooling, LLMs, cloud infrastructure, technical operations, and security. We don't expect deep experience across all of these, but we do want someone who is keen to tackle them all.

You will:

• Design, build, and help manage our cloud-build environments – and make them ready for agentic development. We’re moving development off laptops and into centralized environments and we want to take the opportunity to improve both developer experience and security.

• Build the golden path for our citizen developers. LLMs have meant a broad swath of non-engineers want to build and deploy apps. You’ll build the infrastructure to help them do it in a way that provides security, reliability, and redundancy.

• Help get our existing developer processes ‘AI-ready’. You’ll partner with Engineering to make sure our tools and codebases are fit for agentic workflows and help build and deploy developer tooling, infrastructure and processes to support this.

• Bridge Engineering, Security, and TechOps, and be the person who ensures our development processes fit the demands of all three of these stakeholders.

You are ideal for this role if:

• You have 5+ years of software engineering. We want to see significant experience in developer tooling, software engineering or infrastructure engineering roles.

• You’ve owned real cloud infrastructure. We expect experience designing, deploying and maintaining AWS (or GCP) infrastructure that handles real-world loads.

• You have opinionated takes on improving DevEx. We want someone who has seen the good and the ugly, and is ready to apply those lessons.

• You’re AI-pilled or keen to experiment. That’s basically where we are, so let’s all go experiment with this Agentic stuff.

• You’re comfortable with Python and TypeScript. This is what your customers will be shipping.

• You’re service-orientated. Semgrep employees will be your customers.

And some ‘nice to haves’:

• Cloud security, container security, and supply chain threats.

• Semgrep Code (or other SAST tooling)

• Semgrep Supply Chain (or other SCA tools)

Compensation

The estimated starting annual salary range for this position is $163,000 to $246,500 USD. The actual base salary will be determined based on a number of factors, which may include 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. We view equity as a meaningful part of our compensation philosophy and a way for employees to share in the long-term value they help create.

Compensation ranges are reviewed regularly and may be adjusted as the role, individual performance, or market conditions evolve.

What we offer (FTE only)

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 invest in our employees’ well-being and long-term success through a competitive, market-aligned benefits program that meets or exceeds local market standards across all of the regions in which we hire. Benefits offerings vary by location to reflect local requirements and norms. For more detailed, location-specific information, please visit Semgrep Benefits.

Who we are

We bring together people from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines—from physics and philosophy to formal methods research and full-fledged corporations. We’re new parents and new grads, 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.

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.