Senior Engineering Manager

About r2c
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
As the Senior Engineering Manager working on our cloud product, you will support and grow a group of independent, creative, dedicated engineers. With your team, you will help build and maintain the products and features that make https://semgrep.dev vital to our customers’ workflows. You’ll work with product to define ideal customers outcomes, understand and distinguish technical tradeoffs, and build roadmaps that balance new feature development with paying down technical debt.
You’ll learn about the application-security space, meeting with developers and security professionals at organizations ranging from single-person startups to social-media giants. Through r2c’s culture of transparency, you’ll see, and influence, the decisions that make an early-stage startup successful. You will grow with your team, learning how to foster the development of ever more skilled engineers, to recruit diverse talent, and to build a team that grows as both your and your teams impact scales. As a member of a team with a culture of permissionless innovation, your contributions will affect every aspect of our products, giving your contributions meaningful impact now and as r2c grows.

You will:

• Continually grow your team through the hiring of diverse and productive technical talent
• Build an environment of trust that rewards creativity, risk taking, and personal responsibility
• Support and strengthen engineers with coaching and mentorship, regular feedback and performance reviews, and performance management when necessary
• Prioritize and direct your team’s schedule, balancing the needs of developing new technology, supporting existing technology, and fostering internal technical quality, and updating these priorities to meet the needs of r2c as it grows
• Collaborate with product, design, and other teams at r2c to define and deliver a shared strategy for your team including defining quantitative metrics to measure your progress
• Promote a productive, engaging, diverse, and inclusive culture that embodies r2c’s core values of Mutual Respect, Honesty, Mission-Driven, and Our Work Has Impact.

You are ideal for this role if you have:

• Four or more years of experience leading software engineering teams
• A strong desire to help engineers grow
• Familiarity with agile development principles
• Working understanding of full-stack applications development, which may include technologies such as client-server web applications, single-page applications, distributed infrastructure with cloud services, site-reliability, or data processing pipelines
• The ability to work hours compatible with the US west-coast (PST)
• Excitement about wearing different hats and having your role evolve as your team grows

You might spend a typical day:

• Coaching a senior engineer, helping them gain the skills needed to lead and mentor other engineers through increasingly difficult projects
• Working with product and engineering leadership to identify your team’s strategic direction
• Making direct technical contributions to help deliver new features and unblock teams
• Developing — and executing — a new hiring process and advocating for your teams’ needs
• Working one-on-one with a new grad to mentor them on how to write correct, performant SQL queries

Compensation

• Salary Range: $183,600 - $216,000
• Our compensation package includes equity and benefits in addition to salary.
• Please note that the range listed is for someone based in the SF Bay Area. If you are located elsewhere, we adjust salaries based on location.

What we offer
Our goal is to competitively and fairly compensate every r2cer 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 also invest in our employees’ well-being and long term success with comprehensive health plans, generous vacation time, learning stipends, and more. Our benefits are for everyo