Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Semgrep as a Senior Engineering Manager and lead our Code and Secrets engineering teams. You will empower and grow a diverse group of engineers, focusing on improving our code security products. This role requires fostering innovation, building high-performing teams, and making strategic decisions to ensure product success. You will collaborate with product and design partners, prioritize team schedules, and mentor engineers. The ideal candidate has extensive experience leading software engineering teams, a strong product development background, and familiarity with agile principles. Semgrep offers a competitive salary, equity, benefits, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Salary Range: $171,000 - $239,000
• Equity
• Benefits
• Comprehensive health plans
• Generous vacation time
• 401k
• Learning stipends