Security Research Manager, Coverage Team

Responsibilities

• Hire, develop, and grow the team, cultivating a productive, engaging, diverse, and inclusive work environment that aligns with Semgrep's core values
• Work closely with product management, sales, and product development teams across all product lines
• Understand, measure, and elevate the velocity and quality of Semgrep detection rule delivery
• Prioritize your team’s work and schedules, balancing current product needs with strategic research that will help scale the team through AI and automation
• Contribute to the technical direction and to the research (depending on your profile)
• Directly impact the security posture of many customers by improving the quality of our detection

Requirements

• 2+ years experience as a People Manager
• 5+ years experience as a Tech Lead in the Security space: App Sec Engineer, Security Researcher, Vulnerability Researcher, etc
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environments where prototypes are rapidly iterated or discarded
• Comfortable tech leading and mentoring Security Researchers
• Excellent proactive communication skills, both verbal and written
• Fit in our low-ego high-impact culture
• Excitement about building for customers, iterating fast, and seeing solutions solve real developer problems
• Curiosity and a love of new technologies, especially AI/ML
• Comfortable writing code, especially in Python or Rust

Example Projects

• Improve and scale Semgrep’s automated pipelines for generating and validating high-confidence detection rules
• Lead a team to identify and analyze vulnerability patterns (CVEs or from first-principle) across languages and ecosystems, and turn those into detection rules
• Put in place unified measurements for performance of detection to ensure the best quality across our customers

Compensation

• Estimated starting annual salary range: $255,200 to $319,000 USD
• Total compensation may include equity, variable compensation, and benefits