Senior TechOps Engineer

About Semgrep

Semgrep is on a mission to make it expensive to exploit software. As the team behind the most popular SAST, we built the Semgrep AppSec Platform to deliver industry-leading code, dependency, and secrets scanning to enable organizations to ship secure code quickly without slowing down development.

With fast, customizable code analysis across large codebases, Semgrep helps teams catch vulnerabilities early and fix them faster. Leading companies like Snowflake, Plaid, Figma, Lyft, and Dropbox rely on Semgrep to secure their software.

Semgrep is funded by top investors, including Felicis Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital.

About the role

We are continuing to scale our TechOps team, alongside the company. This role will be on our combined Security & TechOps team, with the focus build of a suite of company-wide tools and services. You will be a core partner for the Engineering, People Ops and Security teams. The role is an excellent opportunity to build out a modern corporate tech stack, in a company that is rapidly growing and places a premium on engineering-led solutions.

To be successful in this role, you will need to have a customer-service orientation and a broad background in technology architecture. In addition, you must be able to balance the competing demands of running a modern, employee-friendly tech stack with our need to protect our customers and corporate infrastructure.

You will:

• Help set the strategy and roadmap for our corporate technology and services
• Minimize friction and improve the efficiency of our internal tooling and infrastructure
• Manage Google Workspace, Okta, Slack, GitHub and other core SaaS applications
• Be a core contributor to projects aimed at improving our developer experience, corporate security, and people operations
• Manage relationships with vendors and consultants
• Contribute to our security and compliance programs
• Help provide technology support to all Semgrep team members

You are ideal for this role if you:

• Have 5+ years of experience in senior IT operations roles, supervising teams, and setting corporate technology strategy
• Have significant technical project management skills
• Have broad background in endpoint, network, and SaaS administration
• Enjoy leading technical projects as well as contributing to cross-functional teams
• Are a self-starter, and confident working independently
• Have experience partnering with core internal teams (e.g., Security, Engineering, People Ops, etc.)
• Experienced with the core tools and services in modern start-ups, inc macOS endpoints, Google Workplace, Okta, as well as experience architecting cloud services such as AWS.
• Experienced in improving technical services through automation and low-code tools

Compensation

Salary Range: $150,000-200,000

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.

What we offer

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.

Please Note: For US-based roles open to remote work, we are currently able to hire employees in the following states only: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.