Senior Technical Support Engineer I (TSE)

About Semgrep

Our mission is to make world-class software security available to everyone. This means building program analysis tools that are open source, easy to use, powerful, and fast. It also means building a team with security expertise and a passion for great developer experiences. Most of all, it means working with honesty and respect in a diverse community of dreamers and builders. We’ve redefined static analysis tooling by committing to all of these, and turned our project, Semgrep, into an essential safeguard for code at Snowflake, Dropbox, and more.

About the Role

The Senior Technical Support Engineer I (TSE) is a critical role in our Customer Success Organization. The TSE will be responsible for remotely engaging with active and prospective customers to rapidly analyze, reproduce and resolve their technical problems. You’ll be the first line of defense against technical support issues that arrive via email, slack and support cases. In this role you will investigate and resolve customer problems for the Semgrep product line, including Semgrep SAST, Supply Chain and Secrets solutions. Our customer-facing role will expose you to a diverse group of teams within Semgrep - including but not limited to Engineering, Product Management, and Sales - providing opportunities for career growth in a lively and fast-paced environment.

Location Expectations

This role can be fully remote, ideally located in the UK.

Prior experience in a fast-paced, tech environment is helpful, but we are more interested in your problem solving skills than your pedigree. So if this opportunity excites you but you don’t meet the exact requirements, apply anyway!

Responsibilities

• Understand, reproduce and resolve complicated technical issues that our customers have raised.
• Own each customer question from initial creation to resolution.
• Manage support tickets to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and follow-ups are done in a timely manner.
• Be the voice of the customer and helping prioritize recurring feature requests from our customers with our product and engineering teams.
• Contribute to building up a best-in-class technical support function, including contributing to our documentation and writing knowledge base articles, writing blogs, or designing integrations between tools.
• Participate in on-call duties.
• Lead and improve Support operations to help Semgrep grow as a business - these include systems, process, and training improvements.

Ideal Candidate Profile

You are ideal for this role if you have:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A deep understanding of developer workflows and build systems, including CI / CD environments such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Circle CI, Jenkins, and Buildkite and SCM environments such as Git, SVN, Perforce etc.
• Familiarity with Web Application Security concepts including OWASP Top 10.
• Basic understanding of API and Webhooks.
• A genuine interest and passion for helping solve problems, with a high degree of empathy for the customer experience.
• 2+ years of experience working in customer support - Technical support experience is a plus.
• Ability to work during CET hours of 9am - 6pm Monday through Friday, and weekend/holiday on-call rotation.

Language Preference

Bi-lingual English and German is preferred.

Compensation

Salary Range

• $106,000 - $125,000 USD (This range is for someone based in the San Francisco Bay Area)

Our compensation package includes equity and benefits in addition to salary.

What We Offer

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.