Senior Program Analysis Engineer, Code

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

As a program analysis engineer working on Semgrep’s Code product, you’ll build user facing security tools to help people secure the software their developers are writing. You will expand Semgrep’s static analysis capabilities to new languages, speed up the engine to find new vulnerabilities faster, and add new analysis features to better catch the vulnerabilities customers care about. Together with your team, you’ll write the tools to make it faster and easy to keep the code developers are writing secure and fast.

You’ll learn about the application-security space, mentor more junior developers, collaborate with product managers, security researchers, and application development engineers to create security tools our customers love. Through Semgrep’s culture of transparency, you’ll see and influence the decisions that make a startup successful. 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:

• Make fundamental improvements to Semgrep’s analysis capabilities to enhance the Code product line

• Help set technical and product direction, collaborating with the team to determine the future of the product, what features to build, and how to build them

• Contribute to the technical roadmap for our foundational analysis, listening to our users as well as program analysis engineers and security researchers across the company

• Learn from users to understand their needs, build products to help keep them secure, and work with them to help them scale their security programs

• Advise and mentor other engineers via thoughtful code reviews, planning discussions, technical documentation, and formal mentorship

You are ideal for this role if you have:

• 4+ years of software development experience, with at least 3 years of that focusing on program static analysis or equivalent academic experience such as a PhD

• Experience or interest to work in a functional programing language (OCaml, Haskell, Rust, F# etc.)

• Technical leadership experience guiding cross-functional teams through complex engineering initiatives

• Passion for shipping quickly and safely, caring deeply about solving real problems for our users and allowing them to depend on us

• Excellent and proactive communication, both verbal and written

Some examples projects you might work on include:

• Enhance field-sensitivity in Semgrep's taint analysis engine, or enable tracking of taint through function callbacks in Javascript

• Design a new rule syntax in conjunction with the Security Researchers on your team to simplify rule writing in the presence of common frameworks

• Add new features to our IDE experience for the Code product

Compensation 

Salary Range: $176,000-207,000 USD

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.

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.