Security Research Manager, Coverage Team

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Hire, develop, and grow the team, cultivating a productive, engaging, diverse, and inclusive work environment that aligns with Semgrep's core values
Work closely with product management, sales, and product development teams across all product lines
Understand, measure, and elevate the velocity and quality of Semgrep detection rule delivery
Prioritize your team’s work and schedules, balancing current product needs with strategic research that will help scale the team through AI and automation
Contribute to the technical direction and to the research (depending on your profile)
Directly impact the security posture of many customers by improving the quality of our detection

2+ years experience as a People Manager
5+ years experience as a Tech Lead in the Security space: App Sec Engineer, Security Researcher, Vulnerability Researcher, etc
Comfortable working in a fast-paced environments where prototypes are rapidly iterated or discarded
Comfortable tech leading and mentoring Security Researchers
Excellent proactive communication skills, both verbal and written
Fit in our low-ego high-impact culture
Excitement about building for customers, iterating fast, and seeing solutions solve real developer problems
Curiosity and a love of new technologies, especially AI/ML
Comfortable writing code, especially in Python or Rust

Improve and scale Semgrep’s automated pipelines for generating and validating high-confidence detection rules
Lead a team to identify and analyze vulnerability patterns (CVEs or from first-principle) across languages and ecosystems, and turn those into detection rules. Example: Improve supply chain reachability product for a given language, Code product can report security issues that cross the Android JNI interfaces, etc.
Put in place unified measurements for performance of detection to ensure the best quality across our customers

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