Senior Engineering Manager, Software Supply Chain Security

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