Senior Engineering Manager, AI Workflows
Semgrep · San Francisco, CA
$197,000–$288,000from the description
Jul 15, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An engineering manager role leading a small team building "Workflows," a system that integrates code security scanning tools with large language models to detect, validate, and remediate security vulnerabilities. The team owns an SDK for composing operations into workflows, a periodic execution environment, and a library of pre-built workflows. The role blends people management — coaching, roadmapping, and goal-setting — with direct technical contributions.
Senior level · 3+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 169,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 101,500–253,500
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting is for an engineering manager leading a team of 3–5 engineers, with an explicit expectation of making direct technical contributions as well — the alt SOC (15-1252 Software Developers) reflects this IC component, but people management is clearly the primary function.
The title carries no seniority level word; 'Unspecified' is used for the level advertised in the title. The 3+ years of team leadership requirement and scope (single team of 3–5) support a Senior band.
Three preferred expertise areas (public SDK/API design, data workflow orchestration, AI applied to cybersecurity) are framed as 'ideally' and 'expertise in two of the following three' — all three are marked preferred. Metaflow and Argo Workflows are listed as examples of orchestration tools and are captured as alternatives on one skill.
The posting describes a hybrid role (3+ days/week in San Francisco), but the caller has declared this fully remote; remote=true is set per caller instruction and no metro is inferred.
'Engineering team leadership' and 'agile' are listed under the explicit requirements block ('You are ideal for this role if you have') and are marked required. Coaching/mentorship is a stated requirement but names no specific technology or tool, so it is omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): engineering team leadership, SDK design.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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