Staff Software Engineer, Managed Scanning

About the role

As a backend engineer on the Semgrep Managed Scanning team (SMS), you'll build systems that help our customers seamlessly adopt Semgrep and are the beating heart of the company - our scanning infrastructure. Our team's mission is to provide a best-in-class scanning experience while continually improving the usability, speed, and reliability of our products. We are responsible for the systems that drive the lifecycle of a Semgrep scan from scheduling through execution to storage and processing of findings. On this team you'll have an opportunity to work across several layers of our stack including our task processing systems and various web service backends. You'll play a key role in architecting and implementing Elasticsearch as a new layer in our infrastructure, building the search and analytics capabilities that will power the next generation of our findings storage and retrieval systems.

Additionally, you'll learn about the application-security space, mentor more junior developers, collaborate with product managers and other engineers to create security tools our customers love, architect systems for storing and maintaining sensitive data, and help us surface those 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:

• 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
• Plan and execute major initiatives end-to-end, from design, through to implementation, and deployment
• Ensure continual, high-availability operation of services using modern site-reliability practices, including detailed observability and 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:

• 6+ years of experience writing production software and building web applications. Our stack includes Python, Go, Postgres, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and more.
• Experience developing task-based workloads on top of Kubernetes, or similar frameworks.
• 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:

• Implementing dynamic Kubernetes resource tuning for scans
• Reducing scan start latency to improve customer scan experience
• Implementation of Elasticsearch to reduce latency of search workloads

Compensation

• Salary Range: $202,000-238,000 USD for SF Bay Area and NYC
• Our compensation package includes generous equity and benefits in addition to salary.