Payroll Specialist/Analyst

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 Snowflake, Dropbox, and Figma. Learn more at semgrep.dev.

About the role

We’re looking for a detail-oriented Payroll Specialist/Analyst to join our small, but mighty Finance Team. In this role, you will report directly to our VP, Finance and play a crucial part in ensuring smooth payroll operations and compliance at Semgrep. As Semgrep’s Payroll Specialist/Analyst , you will be responsible for processing payroll, managing payroll taxes, administering equity, and ensuring all employees are compensated accurately and on time. You will work closely with HR and Finance to ensure payroll processes align with business needs and legal requirements.

This role will require you to manage payroll for US and International team members, oversee payroll system integrations, and address any payroll discrepancies. You will thrive in this role if you have strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage sensitive data. You will also play a key role in implementing improvements to payroll processes and ensuring compliance with local, state, federal, and international regulations.

Location expectations:

• Our expectation is that this role will be based in the Bay Area with the ability to come into our San Francisco office 2+ days a week.

Prior experience in a fast-paced, tech environment is helpful, but we are more interested in your detail-oriented and problem solving skills than your pedigree. So if this opportunity excites you but you don’t meet the exact requirements, apply anyway!

What you’ll do

• Own payroll operations and processing in our payroll system (Rippling), for all global locations, preparing payroll account reconciliations and JEs, and ensuring month end close are completed timely and in compliance

• Create controls, processes, and communications, and ensure each pay cycle is processed accurately and timely

• Process associated payroll taxes and payment of employee benefits, including payroll and benefits reconciliations and equity transactions (e.g., ISO, NSO)

• Set up new tax jurisdictions, including withholding, unemployment, worker’s compensation, and disability accounts where applicable

• Partner cross-functionally to optimize and automate our processes, including being a key player in the data feed between payroll system and ERP

• Own employee equity administration, including preparing grant lists for board approval, processing exercises, and responding to employee inquiries

• Reconcile benefits deductions, workers compensation, employee 401(k) contributions, and process wage garnishments

• Research and provide best practices opinions regarding payroll practices and payroll tax and benefits compliances

You are ideal for this role if you have

• 2+ years of payroll processing and compliance experience

• Excellent problem solving skills, strong business judgment, and the ability to communicate risks and suggestions

• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality over sensitive information, including employee data

• Experience processing multi-state payroll and/or managing EOR services

• Experience with tax withholdings and processing related to equity transactions (e.g. ISO, NSO, RSU)

• Experience working with tax jurisdictions, workers comp reporting and invoicing

Compensation

The estimated starting annual salary range for this position is $101,500 to $119,500 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

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.

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.