# Staff Backend Software Engineer at Semgrep

- Company: Semgrep
- What the company does: An extensible developer-friendly application security platform that scans source code to surface true and actionable security issues with AI-assisted SAST, SCA, and Secrets Detection solutions. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia and Felicis.
- Company website: https://semgrep.dev/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco Office
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $230K to $288K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-02-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/semgrep/ba038d3b-ec77-4272-b863-02ee1964bebd
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/semgrep-staff-backend-software-engineer/

## About the role

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll work on our backend and infrastructure systems to design, build and maintain a fast and reliable user experience for our customers. You’ll collaborate with other engineers to develop the APIs, data models and services that power Semgrep’s products at scale. You should have a strong understanding of databases, query optimization and distributed systems and be comfortable integrating third-party vendors into existing first-party code.

Tags: Engineering Org