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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

We're looking for a detail‑oriented Payroll Specialist/Analyst to join our small, but mighty Finance Team. In this role, you will report directly to our VP, Finance and play a crucial part in ensuring smooth payroll operations and compliance at Semgrep. As Semgre‑p's Payroll Specialist/Analyst, you will be responsible for processing payroll, managing payroll taxes, administering equity, and ensuring all employees are compensated accurately and on time. You will work closely with HR and Finance to ensure payroll processes align with business needs and legal requirements.

Location Expectations

• Based in the Bay Area with the ability to come into our San Francisco office 2+ days a week.

What You'll Do

• Own payroll operations and processing in our payroll system (Rippling), for all global locations; prepare payroll account reconciliations and JEs, and ensure month‑end close are completed timely and in compliance.
• Create controls, processes, and communications, and ensure each pay cycle is processed accurately and timely.
• Process associated payroll taxes and payment of employee benefits, including payroll and benefits reconciliations and equity transactions (e.g., ISO, NSO).
• Set up new tax jurisdictions, including withholding, unemployment, worker's compensation, and disability accounts where applicable.
• Partner cross‑functionally to optimize and automate our processes, including being a key player in the data feed between payroll system and ERP.
• Own employee equity administration, including preparing grant lists for board approval, processing exercises, and responding to employee inquiries.
• Reconcile benefits deductions, workers compensation, employee 401(k) contributions, and process wage garnishments.
• Research and provide best practices opinions regarding payroll practices and payroll tax and benefits compliances.

You are ideal for this role if you have

• 2+ years of payroll processing and compliance experience.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills, strong business judgment, and the ability to communicate risks and suggestions.
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality over sensitive information, including employee data.
• Experience processing multi‑state payroll and/or managing EOR services.
• Experience with tax withholdings and processing related to equity transactions (e.g., ISO, NSO, RSU).
• Experience working with tax jurisdictions, workers comp reporting and invoicing.

Compensation

Salary Range $101,500 - $119,500 (based in the San Francisco Bay Area). Our compensation package includes equity and benefits in addition to salary.

What We Offer

We also invest in our employees' well‑being and long‑term success with comprehensive health plans, generous vacation time, 401k, learning stipends, and more. Our benefits are for everyone, so that you're taken care of, and we work with individuals to make sure they have what they need, whether that's quiet work space, adjusted hours, or something else.

Who We Are

We have people from France and the Philippines, physics and philosophy, formal methods research and full‑fledged corporations. We're new parents and new grads, aspiring authors and aspiring Americans, dog lovers and dog‑fooders. 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.

Equal‑Opportunity Employer

Semgrep is an equal‑opportunity employer seeking a diverse range of backgrounds. We value who you are—including your cultural heritage, your socioeconomic status, your age, your race, your gender, your sexual orientation, your disabilities. We value what's vitally important to you—your family, your religion, your politics. If you're exceptional in your role, believe in Semgrep's mission, and treat Semgrep's values as your own, you belong here. For US‑based roles open to remote work, we currently hire employees in the following states: 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.