Senior Engineering Manager, Guardian
SemgrepApplication Security company
San Francisco, United States$230,000 - $288,000Manager
Menlo Ventures
Felicis Ventures
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Redpoint Ventures
Sequoia Capital
Harpoon Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead the Guardian platform team, embedding security analysis into the developer workflow.
- •{"about_the_role": " As a Senior Engineering Manager for Semgrep Guardian, you'll lead the platform team making security a native property of software at the moment it's written \u2014 not a gate applied afterward.
- •Guardian is the platform layer that embeds Semgrep's deterministic security analysis directly into the development loop, including AI agents, MCP layers, and IDEs. ", "key_responsibilities": ["Work closely with product and design partners to create a roadmap for platform success.", "Prioritize and direct the team's schedule, balancing new technology development, consumer needs, and technical quality.", "Retain and strengthen engineers through coaching, mentorship, and performance management.", "Build an environment of trust that rewards creativity, risk-taking, and personal responsibility.", "Continually grow the team through hiring diverse, high-level technical talent."], "requirements": ["3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams.", "Strong foundation in product development and bringing products to production via a multi-disciplinary engineering team.", "Familiarity with agile development principles and iterative milestone development.", "Strong desire to help engineers and other leaders grow through coaching and mentorship.", "Experience building durable platforms, APIs, or SDKs; worked on developer tooling, IDE/editor extensions, or AI agent/MCP/protocol integrations; or built a security product."]}
Required skills
Engineering ManagementProduct ManagementCoachingMentoringAgileScrumKanbanRoadmappingPRDsOKRs
Domain expertise
cybersecuritydeveloper-tools
Benefits & perks
equity, variable compensation, benefits
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptGoRustJavaC++C#ReactNode.jsDjangoFlaskFastAPISpringExpressRuby on Rails.NETASP.NETNestJSLaravelSymfonyGinEchoActixPhoenixMicroservicesPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedis
