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Software Engineer/Tech Lead - Code Plane [IC5]

🕒 11 days ago
Software EngineeringTechnical LeadershipAI Product DevelopmentCross-functional Collaboration

📜 Description

  • Our mission is to bring clarity and control to the world's most complex codebases. AI is accelerating code creation, but the infrastructure to understand, oversee, and evolve that code hasn't kept pace. Sourcegraph
  • Companies like Stripe, Reddit, and Leidos rely on Sourcegraph to ship faster and with higher quality. We're backed by a16z, Sequoia, and Redpoint, and proud to operate as a globally distributed team that values high
  • If you want to build the infrastructure that lets every engineering team - and every agent they deploy - operate on their codebase with confidence, join us.
  • 🌎 While we hire almost anywhere in the world, we have a preference for someone to reside in the following locations for this role. However, if you feel qualified, we welcome you to apply regardless of location. No
  • The Code Plane team owns the Sourcegraph products that help developers - and the agents working on their behalf - take action on code, at scale, across the world's largest codebases. Think “data plane” and “control
  • We're hiring you to be the technical leader around whom this team rallies. Our product surfaces are evolving drastically as agents reshape how software is built, and we are adjusting our engineering teams to match. It

🛠️ Requirements

  • East Coast USA
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • A strong technical background, with the ability to provide technical guidance on architecture, code quality, and trade-offs.
  • Proven experience on teams that build end-user product features — ideally developer tools, agent/AI products, CLIs, or other technical product surfaces.
  • Experience partnering closely with Product and Design to take features from idea to shipped, and incorporating customer feedback into the roadmap.
  • Customer-facing experience: discovery calls, design partnerships, incorporating feedback loops into a roadmap.
  • Experience shipping products consumed by or built for AI agents (MCP servers, agent SDKs, agentic dev tooling, agent-friendly CLIs).
  • Hands-on experience using and reasoning about coding agents (Amp, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar), with strong opinions about what good looks like when humans and agents share a workflow.
  • Async-first communication skills and experience working in a globally distributed remote team.
  • Fluency with the stack the Code Plane team works in: Go, TypeScript/React (and ideally SvelteKit), GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL, Docker/Kubernetes, and a multi-service environment.

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