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Semgrep, the leader in code security for builders, empowers invention without friction. Teams catch, flag, and fix real issues before they ship, powered by security that learns as they build. Semgrep secures code as it’s written and provides guardrails that pave the road for developers to move fast and stay secure. Built for builders and trusted by security, Semgrep lives where developers work, delivering fixes without breaking flow, and giving security teams visibility, control, and confidence. Semgrep gets smarter as you build, with AI that learns your context to cut false positives and prioritize reachable vulnerabilities, validated by 95% of security reviewers across 6M+ findings. Semgrep makes zero false positives a reality with AppSec teams triaging 80% fewer false positives across Code and Supply Chain, dramatically shrinking the backlog.

Founded in San Francisco and backed by Menlo Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital, Semgrep is recognized by Gartner in Application Security Testing and is trusted by leading organizations, including Vanta, Lyft, and Dropbox. Learn more at semgrep.dev.

As a Senior Growth Engineer within the Product Engineering organization, you'll work at the intersection of product, marketing and sales to drive user acquisition, activation, retention and revenue growth. You'll build and optimize experiences that help new users onboard seamlessly, drive product adoption and improve our ability to convert free users to paying customers. You’ll experiment rapidly, analyze user behavior and implement changes that scale Semgrep’s growth engine.

The San Francisco Bay Area location is preferred but open to remote candidates currently located in PST or MST.

• Develop and scale growth experiments across the funnel—acquisition, activation, engagement, retention and monetization—using a mix of product, engineering and data science techniques.
• Build and optimize user experiences that drive self‑serve adoption and expand usage within teams.
• Leverage data and analytics to measure user behavior, uncover insights and identify opportunities for growth.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Sales, RevOps, Marketing, Product and Engineering teams to lead PLG and SLG motions.
• Automate and enhance workflows for customer acquisition, lead qualification and sales enablement.
• Contribute to technical growth initiatives, such as in‑app experiments, onboarding flows and usage‑based monetization models.
• Own and improve growth infrastructure, including experimentation platforms, tracking systems and data pipelines.

• Enthusiasm and experience with experimentation‑driven approach to problem‑solving
• 4+ years of experience writing production software and building web applications. Our stack includes Python, Typescript and Postgres
• Exposure and experience using AI coding agents / tools
• Excitement about building for customers, learning their needs, iterating fast and seeing your solutions solve their core problems
• Excellent and proactive communication, both verbal and written

• Collaborate across engineering teams to drive additional new user registrations and activations by reducing the barrier to try and adopt new AI product features
• Generate personalized security rule sets for use in agentic workflows based on language and security needs
• Building additional monetization capabilities tied to our AI features and future product SKUs to unlock additional revenue generation

Hourly Range: $120-$160 per hour. The hourly rate will be determined based on a number of factors, which may include job‑related skills, relevant experience, qualifications, location and market data.

Our goal is to competitively and fairly compensate every Semgrep employee with a system that equally rewards those who are vocal and those who are less comfortable making demands during the final steps of the hiring process. To that end, we generate internal compensation bands that are used when discussing and negotiating salaries. We update these based on market data to make sure they’re above the average for comparable roles.

We invest in our employees’ well‑being and long‑term success through a competitive, market‑aligned benefits program that meets or exceeds local market standards across all of the regions in which we hire. Benefits offerings vary by location to reflect local requirements and norms. For more detailed, location‑specific information, please visit Semgrep Benefits.

We bring together people from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines—from physics and philosophy to formal methods research and full‑fledged corporations. We’re new parents and new grads, dog lovers and dogfooders. We get together often to bike, bake and meet up in parks. In our interactions, we believe respect and honesty go hand in hand, and prioritize both.

Semgrep is an equal‑opportunity employer seeking a diverse range of backgrounds. We value who you are—including your cultural heritage, your socioeconomic status, your age, your race, your gender, your sexual orientation, your disabilities. We value what’s vitally important to you—your family, your religion, your politics. We value what you love in this world—your music, your weekend pursuits. We believe in welcoming varied professional backgrounds, educations and interests. If you’re exceptional in your role, believe in Semgrep’s mission and treat Semgrep’s values as your own, you belong here.

Please Note: For US‑based roles open to remote work, we are currently able to hire employees in the following states only: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.