Software Engineer/Tech Lead - Code Plane [IC5]
SourcegraphBase Salary
$96k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical and product direction for the Code Plane team and drive its roadmap from discovery through launch.
- Own a meaningful portion of Agentic Batch Changes end-to-end and ship critical product and technical features hands-on.
- Make architecture, quality, prioritization, and technical trade-off decisions while keeping the team unblocked.
- Partner with Product, Design, Solutions Engineering, customers, and design partners to turn feedback into roadmap decisions.
- Lead work across Batch Changes, Agentic Batch Changes, Code Monitors, Code Insights, and the src CLI.
- Mentor teammates, improve design/review/testing/delivery practices, and participate in the on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong technical background providing guidance on architecture, code quality, and trade-offs.
- Proven experience building end-user product features, ideally developer tools, AI-agent products, CLIs, or other technical product surfaces.
- Experience partnering with Product and Design to take features from idea to shipment and incorporate customer feedback into roadmaps.
- Customer-facing experience including discovery calls, design partnerships, and feedback loops.
- Experience shipping products consumed by or built for AI agents, such as MCP servers, agent SDKs, agentic developer tooling, or agent-friendly CLIs.
- Hands-on experience using and evaluating coding agents such as Amp, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar tools.
- Experience communicating asynchronously and working on globally distributed remote teams.
- Preferred experience with Go, TypeScript/React, SvelteKit, GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and multi-service environments.
- Preferred experience with developer tools, code intelligence, code search, large-scale code transformation, monitoring, alerting, security scanners, lint platforms, code-quality tools, or pleasant human- and agent-facing CLIs.
- Experience as a Team Lead or Tech Lead on a software engineering team is preferred.
Benefits
- Globally distributed remote work, with preferred locations in Europe and the East Coast USA and at least 20 hours per week of overlap with CEST.
- Meaningful equity and generous perks and benefits.
- Transparent IC5 compensation bands based on location zone.
- Equal opportunity workplace and an inclusive hiring process.
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About Sourcegraph
Sourcegraph is the leading code intelligence platform revolutionizing how developers understand, fix, and automate their code. At Sourcegraph, we use the power of AI with Cody, our AI coding assistant, to help developers better understand their code. Our technology makes it easy to navigate through large codebases, find relevant code snippets, and get historical context. Plus, our Code Search and analysis tools help you quickly fix bugs, refactor code, and improve performance - all in one easy-to-use interface. Over one million engineers use Sourcegraph to improve code security, efficiently onboard developers, promote code reuse, resolve incidents, and boost code health. Code intelligence is a critical capability that increases enterprise engineering velocity, software quality and stability, and team health. Leading companies like Databricks, Plaid, Uber, Lyft, Reddit, GE, and Dropbox, rely on Sourcegraph to build the products we all rely on. Sourcegraph is an all-remote company backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Goldcrest Capital.