Semgrep · 18 hours ago
Senior IDE Engineer, Semgrep Analysis Foundations
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$176K/yr - $207K/yrSemgrep is a leader in code security for builders, empowering teams to catch, flag, and fix real issues before they ship. The role involves focusing on building the best secure development experience, designing secure coding for the LLM age, and iterating quickly while keeping long-term sustainability in mind.
Cyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Own our MCP server and IDE extension across popular editors and agentic coding tools
Experiment with Claude and Cursor hooks, working directly with Anthropic and Cursor engineers to influence how they develop these tools
Build comprehensive observability and debugging tools that help us quickly identify and resolve issues in diverse customer environments
Advocate for architectural decisions that make our code easy to reason about and allow us to scale with an exponentially growing number of users
Advise and mentor other engineers via thoughtful code reviews, planning discussions, technical documentation, and formal mentorship
Qualification
Required
Developed an IDE extension for a popular language or tool
Built and maintained high-availability, low-latency systems that require real-time responsiveness
Built cross-platform applications for Linux, macOS, and Windows, including automated testing and CI/CD pipelines
Passion for shipping quickly and safely, caring deeply about solving real problems for our users and allowing them to depend on us
Excellent and proactive communication, both verbal and written
Interest in code analysis and experience or interest in working in a functional programming language (OCaml, Haskell). If you've ever spent time studying how your interpreter, compiler, linter, or garbage collector works, come work with us!
Benefits
Equity
Variable compensation
Benefits
Company
Semgrep
Semgrep is an application security platform that scans code for bugs, security vulnerabilities, and enforce coding standards.
Founded in 2017
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$193MKey Investors
Menlo VenturesLightspeed Venture PartnersFelicis
2025-02-05Series D· $100M
2023-04-18Series C· $53M
2021-07-07Series B· $27M
Leadership Team
Isaac Evans
Founder, CEO
Drew Dennison
Co-Founder, CTO
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