Senior Technical Support Engineer EMEA

About Semgrep

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 Snowflake, Dropbox, and Figma. Learn more at semgrep.dev.

Location: Full Remote, offer available from: EMEA (current location in the UK).

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, but with your current location being in the UK.

What you’ll do

• 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 help prioritize recurring feature requests with our product and engineering teams.
• Contribute to building a best‑in‑class technical support function, including documentation, knowledge‑base articles, blogs, or designing integrations between tools.
• Participate in on‑call duties.
• Lead and improve Support operations to help Semgrep grow as a business – including systems, process, and training improvements.

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, CircleCI, 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 9 am – 6 pm Monday through Friday, and weekend/holiday on‑call rotation.

Compensation

The estimated starting annual salary range for this position is £66,800 – £83,500. The actual base salary will be determined based on a number of factors, which may include job‑related skills, relevant experience, qualifications, location, internal equity, and market data. In addition to base salary, total compensation may include equity, variable compensation, and benefits. We view equity as a meaningful part of our compensation philosophy and a way for employees to share in the long‑term value they help create.

Compensation ranges are reviewed regularly and may be adjusted as the role, individual performance, or market conditions evolve.

What we offer (FTE only)

• Competitive, market‑aligned benefits program that meets or exceeds local market standards across all regions where we hire. Benefits offerings vary by location to reflect local requirements and norms. For more detailed, location‑specific information, please visit Semgrep Benefits.
• Internal compensation bands that are regularly updated based on market data to ensure they are above the average for comparable roles.

Who we are

We bring together people from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines—from physics and philosophy to formal methods research and full‑fledged corporations. We’re new parents and new grads, dog lovers and dogfooders. We get together often to bike, bake, and meet up in parks. In our interactions, we believe respect and honesty go hand in hand, and prioritize both.

Semgrep is an equal‑opportunity employer seeking a diverse range of backgrounds. We value who you are — including your cultural heritage, socioeconomic status, age, race, gender, sexual orientation, and disabilities. We value what’s vitally important to you — your family, religion, politics. We value what you love in this world — your music, weekend pursuits. We believe in welcoming varied professional backgrounds, educations, and interests. If you’re exceptional in your role, believe in Semgrep’s mission, and treat Semgrep’s values as your own, you belong here.

Note: For US‑based roles open to remote work, we are currently able to hire employees in the following states only: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.

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