Tech Lead - Code Plane [IC5]
Sourcegraph6 hours ago
Base Salary
$144k - $192k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical and product direction for the Code Plane team and lead roadmap scoping, sequencing, and execution.
- Own a meaningful slice of Agentic Batch Changes end-to-end and ship critical product and engineering work hands-on.
- Make architecture, quality, testing, release, and technical trade-off decisions across backend, AI-agent, and frontend work.
- Partner with Product, Design, Solutions Engineering, Customer Engineering, and adjacent engineering teams to translate customer feedback into shipped features.
- Mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and keep the team unblocked and moving.
- Build and improve systems used by coding agents and other non-human callers, including evaluation and measurement mechanisms.
- Participate in the team's on-call support rotation.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Fluency across Go, TypeScript, SvelteKit, React, GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL, Docker, and Kubernetes in a multi-service environment.
- Strong technical background with the ability to guide architecture, code quality, and engineering trade-offs.
- Experience building end-user product features, ideally developer tools, agent or AI products, CLIs, or other technical product surfaces.
- Experience partnering with Product and Design to take features from concept to shipment and incorporate customer feedback into roadmaps.
- Experience building something that agents or other programs call, such as MCP servers, agent SDKs, tool surfaces, harnesses, or CLIs for non-human callers.
- Hands-on experience using and reasoning about coding agents such as Amp, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar tools.
- Experience working in an async-first, globally distributed remote team.
- Preferred qualifications include orchestrating autonomous work at scale, owning inherited services with paying customers, raising engineering standards, making decisions under uncertainty, building system-quality measurements, engaging directly with customers, and serving as a Team or Tech Lead.
Benefits
- The role is globally distributed, with preferred locations in Europe or EST and at least 20 hours per week of CEST working-hours overlap.
- The position includes meaningful equity and generous perks and benefits.
- The role is an IC5 position with location-based compensation bands.
- The interview process is expected to take 4.75 hours in total and includes recruiter, hiring manager, system design, agent hardening, collaboration, leadership, reference, and background-check stages.
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About Sourcegraph
Sourcegraph builds a code intelligence and AI context platform that provides code search, deep code understanding, and coordinated code changes across large, multi-repo codebases. It sells enterprise subscriptions to products including Code Search, Deep Search, MCP, and Agentic Batch Changes for engineering teams and AI agents. Privately held and founded in 2013, Sourcegraph is headquartered in San Francisco and counts companies like Stripe, Uber, Reddit, and Dropbox as customers.