Senior Software Engineer, Growth Team

About the role

As a Senior Growth Engineer within the Engineering organization, you'll work at the intersection of product, marketing, and sales to drive user acquisition, activation, retention, and revenue growth. You'll build and optimize experiences that help new users onboard seamlessly, drive product adoption, and improve our ability to convert free users to paying customers. You'll experiment rapidly, analyze user behavior, and implement changes that scale Semgrep's growth engine.

You will:

• Develop and scale growth experiments across the funnel-acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and monetization-using a mix of product, engineering, and data science techniques.
• Build and optimize user experiences that drive self-serve adoption and expand usage within teams.
• Leverage data and analytics to measure user behavior, uncover insights, and identify opportunities for growth.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, RevOps, Marketing, Product, and Engineering teams to lead PLG and SLG motions.
• Automate and enhance workflows for customer acquisition, lead qualification, and sales enablement.
• Contribute to technical growth initiatives, such as in-app experiments, onboarding flows, and usage-based monetization models.
• Own and improve growth infrastructure, including experimentation platforms, tracking systems, and data pipelines.

You are ideal for this role if you have:

• Enthusiasm and experience with experimentation-driven approach to problem-solving
• 4+ years of experience writing production software and building web applications. Our stack includes Python, 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:

• Build a system to evaluate and improve the data quality of enrichment, ensuring accurate and actionable insights for Sales, while continuously refining the quality of the lead and account data to drive revenue expansion and net dollar retention
• Collaborate across engineering teams to drive additional new user registrations and activations by reducing the barrier to try and adopt new product features
• Experiment with Gen AI to generate personalized security rule sets based on language and security needs

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.