Our mission is to make world-class software security available to everyone. This means building program analysis tools that are open source, easy to use, powerful, and fast. It also means building a team with security expertise and a passion for great developer experiences. Most of all, it means working with honesty and respect in a diverse community of dreamers and builders. We’ve redefined static analysis tooling by committing to all of these, and turned our project, Semgrep, into an essential safeguard for code at Snowflake, Dropbox, and more.
About the role
As a Staff Frontend Software Engineer you will report directly to one of our engineering leaders and you will be responsible for building and improving our most important frontend workflows. You’ll be expected to operate with an extremely high degree of autonomy and be capable of improving critical workflows with limited oversight and lo-fi mocks from designers.
You will:
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and Design leaders throughout the company
- Ship a high-quality improvement to a critical workflow roughly once/quarter
- e.g. customer onboarding, how customers triage findings, and how they interact with our AI capabilities
- Uplevel frontend excellence across the company
- Significant contributor to the long-term strategy of our component library. You’ve never worked somewhere where you didn’t leave the component library better than you found it.
- Meet frequently with designers to understand our largest UI/UX gaps
- Mentor less senior frontend engineers throughout the company
- Participate in customer research
You are ideal for this role if:
- 7+ years software engineering experience
- Very optimistic and an early adopter of using AI tools for frontend development
- Capable of determining a personal roadmap with high business impact
- React expert
- Comfortable making backend Python changes and running simple Postgres migrations
- Obsessive about UI/UX
- Comfortable operating as a junior designer
- Local to SF Bay Area or NYC (in office 2x/week) - Very nice to have, but not req’d
Compensation
Salary Range: $ 202,000-238,000
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.
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.
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Semgrep San Francisco, California, USA Office
88 Kearny Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94104
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