Sr. Engineering Manager Code and Secrets

About the role

As the Senior Engineering Manager working with both our Code and Secrets engineering teams, you will reinforce, empower and grow a group of independent, creative, dedicated engineers of multiple disciplines including security, program analysis, and full-stack developers. Your goal will be to grow and improve our both our 1st party code products - products that aim to secure code companies are writing in-house - while meeting the needs of a growing customer and product space. To do so, you’ll need to foster a culture of innovation and build high performing teams. You’ll make difficult but critical choices, deploying resources to a variety of initiatives and balancing short and long term growth to ensure the success of both products.

You’ll learn about the application-security space, meeting with developers and security professionals at organizations ranging from single-person startups to social-media giants. Through Semgrep’s culture of transparency, you’ll see, and influence, the strategic decisions that make a startup successful. You will grow with your team, learning how to foster the development of more skilled engineers, to recruit diverse talent, and to build a team that scales as Semgrep is broadly adopted. 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:

• 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, supporting our open-source community, and fostering 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:

• Four or more years of experience leading software engineering teams - ideally multiple teams or sub-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
• The ability to work hours compatible with the US west-coast (PST) and Western Europe (EU) - overlapping with both sides at least 2 hours each day 4 days a week

You might spend a typical day:

• 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
• 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
• 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

Recent Team Initiatives

• Improving the Semgrep engine and our Javascript rule coverage to better catch Javascript and Typescript vulnerabilities
• Iterating on the login experience for our Code IDE and improving on the first time use developer workflow

Compensation

Salary Range: $171,000 - $239,000

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.