Careers at Semgrep

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 role As a software engineering intern at Semgrep, you’ll help us build a new category of developer-focused security tools to prevent bugs and security vulnerabilities. You will be joining the team behind the widely used Semgrep . You will get to ship features that make it easier for teams to integrate Semgrep into their existing workflows or build improvements that help our services scale and remain reliable. Along the way, you will work with a dedicated group of full-stack developers, security researchers, program analysis experts, and infrastructure engineers. You will learn from senior developers who bring experience and wisdom from Google, Facebook, and successful startups. You will work with our clients’ security teams at companies ranging from early-stage startups to social-media giants. You will have opportunities to learn about their individual security philosophies and develop ways to make their lives easier. You’ll attend lunch and learn sessions across the company - learning about everything from advanced type systems to product paradigms. As a member of our engineering team, you will get to speak directly with real customers who are using the features you build – something that makes interning at an early-stage startup so unique! We’re excited to go on this journey with you! Perhaps the best description of this internship comes from someone who has been where you will be. Tanisha Kholiya experience as a 2026 intern Solomon Graf experience as a 2026 intern You will Design and ship new features in a full-stack codebase using Python, PostgreSQL, Typescript, and React Work with our users, product team, and design team to address user pain points Query our aggregated metrics and run experiments to help understand and improve core Semgrep workflows Collaborate with your team through code reviews, design discussions, and demos Learn from a peer mentor whose job is to help you succeed, and to help you get what you want out of your internship Present your work to the team at the end of your internship You are ideal for this role if you Have taken multiple college courses in computer science or equivalent experience Are interested in making a career out of software or a related field Have experience in a dynamic language like Python, Ruby, Javascript, or PHP Are excited about software security and developer enablement Are able to work in our San Francisco office 5 days/week. Are you able to start on either Monday, May 24th, 2027 or Monday, June 14th, 2027 Example projects previous interns have worked on: Re-design and implement a frontend web page to be more intuitive and functional Build a Slack App integration for Semgrep-app with an authentication handshake Build seamless VSCode and IntelliJ Semgrep integrations Implement SSO authentication only onboarding Build a triage workflow using PR comments What we offer $2,400 per week for our 11-week full-time internship Close 1:1 mentorship from full-time engineers on the team Regular feedback from your team’s manager The opportunity to work in-person in our San Francisco office An intern cohort of peers 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.

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 role As an EM for Semgrep's supply chain team, you’ll lead a team building customer-facing tools to help developers secure their software from vulnerabilities introduced by dependencies. Other supply chain management tools exist, but they produce far too much noise to be useful or efficient. Security teams may review thousands of vulnerabilities, informing developers that hundreds of their dependencies have introduced critical vulnerabilities and need updating, when in reality they are not even using those dependencies in a vulnerable way. Perhaps you’ve even felt this pain yourself! Our goal is to cut through the noise: to make it easy to find and remediate the 20% of vulnerabilities that are actually reachable given the way our customers’ use their dependencies. We work to make supply chain security as simple and intuitive for our users as possible so developers can focus on their own mission. You'll help Semgrep be the leading application security platform while mentoring junior engineers, collaborating on customer-loved tools, architecting data systems, and helping users understand their security posture. Through Semgrep's culture of transparency, you'll see and influence the decisions that make a startup successful. You will: Work closely with your product and design partners to create a roadmap for the success of your product that balances iterative changes with big bets Prioritize and direct your team’s schedule, balancing the needs of developing new technology and internal technical quality Retain and strengthen engineers with coaching and mentorship, regular feedback, performance reviews, and performance management when necessary Build an environment of trust that rewards creativity, risk taking, and personal responsibility Continually grow your team through the hiring of diverse, productive, high-level technical talent You are ideal for this role if you have: 3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams A strong foundation in product development and bringing products to production via a multi-disciplinary engineering team - including understanding best practices for design, iterative milestone creation, and utilizing customer feedback Familiarity with agile development principles and iterative milestone development A strong desire to help engineers and other leaders grow through coaching and mentorship Nice-Have: You have opinions on Software Composition Analysis, have built a security product before, or have worked at a dev tooling company You might spend a typical day: Working with your team, product management, and engineering leadership to craft your team’s strategic direction and a strong quarter over quarter roadmap to execute on it Defining goals within a team meeting to ensure your team is executing on their short term goals week over week while providing them the vision for the future of the product Coaching a senior engineer, helping them gain the skills needed to lead and mentor other engineers through increasingly difficult projects Making direct technical contributions to help deliver new features and gain a strong understanding of the work your team is doing Location expectations: Our expectation is that this role will be hybrid - requiring 3 days a week in our San Francisco office. Compensation The estimated starting annual salary range for this position is $197,000- $288,000 . 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.

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 role As a Senior Engineering Manager for Semgrep Guardian, you'll lead the platform team making security a native property of software at the moment it's written — not a gate applied afterward. Code is increasingly authored inside AI agents, the MCP layer, and the IDE, and Guardian is the platform layer that embeds Semgrep's deterministic security analysis directly into that loop. Semgrep's detection teams own best-in-class SAST, secrets, SCA, and malware engines; Guardian owns the integration, orchestration, and distribution that turn them into a single, low-latency risk verdict an agent or developer can act on in the moment. Your team owns the surfaces where that verdict is produced and consumed — agent-harness hooks and the partner SDK, the security MCP server, IDE and editor extensions, the orchestration and policy layer, and the unified risk API. Success is measured not by findings produced, but by adoption of that verdict across Semgrep's products, our partners' agents and IDEs, and the trust developers place in it. Through Semgrep's culture of transparency, you'll see and influence the decisions that make a startup successful. You will: Work closely with your product and design partners to create a roadmap for the success of your platform that balances iterative changes with big bets Prioritize and direct your team's schedule, balancing the needs of developing new technology, serving internal and external consumers, and maintaining internal technical quality Retain and strengthen engineers with coaching and mentorship, regular feedback, performance reviews, and performance management when necessary Build an environment of trust that rewards creativity, risk taking, and personal responsibility Continually grow your team through the hiring of diverse, productive, high-level technical talent Please note, this role sits onsite 3 days a week in either of our office hubs( San Francisco, New York City, Denver, or Boston). You are ideal for this role if you have: 3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams A strong foundation in product development and bringing products to production via a multi-disciplinary engineering team — including understanding best practices for design, iterative milestone creation, and utilizing customer feedback Familiarity with agile development principles and iterative milestone development A strong desire to help engineers and other leaders grow through coaching and mentorship You have opinions on building durable platforms, APIs, or SDKs for demanding consumers; have worked on developer tooling, IDE/editor extensions, or AI agent, MCP, and protocol integrations; or have built a security product before Compensation The estimated starting annual salary range for this position is $230,000 to $288,000 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.