Senior Engineering Manager, Software Supply Chain Security

San Francisco, Boston, New York, Denver · USD 197,000-288,000 / year · 3+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 1, 2026

At a glance

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 http://semgrep.dev.

As an EM for Semgrep's supply chain team, you'll lead a team building customer-facing tools to help developers secure their software from vulnerabilities introduced by dependencies.
You'll help Semgrep be the leading application security platform while mentoring junior engineers, collaborating on customer-loved tools, architecting data systems, and helping users understand their security posture.

Work closely with your product and design partners to create a roadmap for the success of your product that balances iterative changes with big bets
Prioritize and direct your team’s schedule, balancing the needs of developing new technology and internal technical quality
Retain and strengthen engineers with coaching and mentorship, regular feedback, performance reviews, and performance management when necessary
Build an environment of trust that rewards creativity, risk taking, and personal responsibility
Continually grow your team through the hiring of diverse, productive, high-level technical talent
Working with your team, product management, and engineering leadership to craft your team’s strategic direction and a strong quarter over quarter roadmap to execute on it
Defining goals within a team meeting to ensure your team is executing on their short term goals week over week while providing them the vision for the future of the product
Coaching a senior engineer, helping them gain the skills needed to lead and mentor other engineers through increasingly difficult projects
Making direct technical contributions to help deliver new features and gain a strong understanding of the work your team is doing

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