About the role As a backend engineer on Semgrep's Code team, you'll build user facing security tools to help people secure the software their developers are writing. Whether it's through writing tooling to tailor Semgrep to our customers unique codebases, prioritizing customer findings to ensure they see the most actionable things first, or enabling developers to fix findings directly in the IDE workflows before a security ticket is even created, 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 program analysis engineers to create security tools our customers love, architect systems for storing and maintaining sensitive data, and help us surface that data back to our users to help them understand their individual security posture. 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: * Work on major product initiatives end-to-end, from user-research through design, implementation, and deployment * 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 * 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 * Advocate for and develop intuitive, simple, robust APIs that solve a wide variety of complex problems using simple, elegant abstractions * 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, planning discussions, technical documentation, and formal mentorship You are ideal for this role if you have: * 4+ years of experience writing production software and building web applications. Our stack includes Python, React (TypeScript), and Postgres * Excitement about building for customers, learning their needs, iterating fast, and seeing your solutions solve their core problems * Excellent and proactive communication, both verbal and written Some examples projects you might work on include: * Revamp on our registry and editor to make it easier to write new rules to find new vulnerabilities * Utilize LLMs and other techniques to make clear actionable guidelines to security developers on how to secure their codebases * 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.