Senior Engineering Manager, Guardian

The role

You will lead the platform team for Semgrep Guardian to embed security analysis into the developer loop. You will manage the surfaces where risk verdicts are produced and consumed, including APIs, SDKs, and IDE extensions.

What you will do

• Work with product and design partners to create a roadmap
• Prioritize and direct the team's schedule
• Balance new technology development, consumer needs, and technical quality
• Retain and strengthen engineers through coaching and mentorship
• Conduct regular feedback, performance reviews, and performance management
• Build an environment of trust that rewards creativity and personal responsibility
• Grow the team through hiring diverse, high-level technical talent

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams
• Strong foundation in product development and bringing products to production via a multi-disciplinary engineering team
• Understanding of best practices for design, iterative milestone creation, and utilizing customer feedback
• Familiarity with agile development principles and iterative milestone development
• Strong desire to help engineers and other leaders grow through coaching and mentorship

Nice to have

• Opinions on building durable platforms, APIs, or SDKs for demanding consumers
• Worked on developer tooling, IDE/editor extensions, or AI agent, MCP, and protocol integrations
• Built a security product before

Benefits

• Equity
• Variable compensation
• Benefits

About the company

Semgrep is a leader in code security for builders that provides security guardrails for developers. The company was founded in San Francisco and is backed by several venture capital firms.