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AI is accelerating code creation, but the infrastructure to understand, oversee, and evolve that code hasn't kept pace. Sourcegraph gives engineering organizations full visibility across their systems, precise context for their agents, and the ability to execute coordinated code changes at scale. As agentic development becomes the dominant engineering paradigm, we provide the context layer teams need to take control of their codebase.\nWith Code Search, Deep Search, MCP, and Agentic Batch Changes, we deliver on that mission today - giving engineering teams and their AI tools the cross-repo context to navigate massive codebases with confidence, and the ability to make changes across hundreds of repositories at once.\nCompanies 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 agency, direct communication, and customer love.\nIf you want to build the infrastructure that lets every engineering team - and every agent they deploy - operate on their codebase with confidence, join us.\nHours & location\nWhile 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 matter what, working hours must overlap with EST for at least 20 hours/week.\nPreferred locations:\nEST\nEurope\nWhy this job is exciting\nSource code is at the heart of Sourcegraph. We support multiple code hosts and retrieve, store, index, and serve source code - to end users, admins, and other internal services.\nThis role gives you the opportunity to solve complex, challenging, and highly technical problems for our customers, both internally and externally, help unleash the potential and productivity of our Engineering teams, and delight our customers with industry-leading quality software. \nThe Platform team primarily focuses on building a fully managed platform for using Sourcegraph, Sourcegraph Cloud, our SaaS offering. As a member of the Platform team, you will work closely with both external customers and internal stakeholders to meet their needs. You will:\nDevelop inter-cloud connectivity solutions to support enterprise customers from highly regulated industries to use Sourcegraph Cloud.\nBuild a control plane to orchestrate a fleet of single-tenant Sourcegraph Cloud instances. \nExpose complex infrastructure as API to support internal customers to iterate faster.\nDive into upstream dependencies (e.g., CDK for Terraform, Terraform providers for GCP) to debug and patch non-trivial problems.\nBe an advocate for building reliable services and work with leadership to help product teams achieve operational excellence. \nParticipate in on-call rotation to uphold our contractual SLA commitments.\nWithin one month, you will…\nOnboard onto the Sourcegraph architecture, tooling, and development workflow.\nBuild a solid understanding of the team’s areas of ownership, technical challenges, and problems the team solves for our customers, and know how all of these align with the top-level company goals.\nActively participate in team meetings, sharing ideas and insights to contribute to the overall team goals.\nStart contributing to the team goals and deliverables by shipping new features, debugging issues, and fixing bugs.\nWithin three months, you will…\nDemonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the Cloud infrastructure, its underlying technologies, and its integration within the Sourcegraph ecosystem.\nLead initiatives contributing to team goals through both discovery and delivery phases, collaborating directly with product and design partners, other engineering teams, and non-technical stakeholders from different departments.\nContribute to the architectural design and implementation of new features or improvements, actively shaping the future direction of Cloud infrastructure based on customer needs.\nLead initiatives contributing to team goals on the roadmap by going through the entire product development lifecycle discovery, design, implementation, and delivery.\nParticipate in our on-call rotation.\nWithin six months, you will…\nBe defining long-term technical vision and strategies for new product development, scaling existing services, and managing technical debt. These plans will consist of multiple smaller milestones that you will deliver iteratively with the team.\nCollaborate with the Engineering Manager on defining the team’s growth strategy based on the long-term product vision, the technical vision, and the team’s needs.\nSeek feedback from customers and stakeholders to identify opportunities for further improvements or new features, actively iterating on the Cloud infrastructure to ensure it continues to meet our high bar.\nAbout you \nYou bring a product mindset in balancing architectural flexibility and philosophy with meeting immediate customer demand. You are an experienced software engineer who seeks to solve problems by writing code rather than through one-off operations. You are passionate about user experience and self-service. You balance maintaining and designing high-impact systems with a pragmatic understanding of how to make appropriate tradeoffs (e.g., cut scope, low-tech vs. custom complex solutions) to ship quickly and iterate when necessary. \nQualifications:\nProficiency in Go, or other strongly typed languages.\nKnowledge in one of the public cloud platform providers (GCP, AWS, Azure)\nExperience with Terraform (or similar IaC solutions) and Kubernetes to build tooling and automation.\nSkilled at debugging distributed systems, followed by designing and implementing solutions to those problems. This means you should know your way around various OS-level primitives, e.g., network, CPU, and memory.\nAbility to communicate clearly and empathetically, especially in writing and documentation.\nPreferred time zone between UTC-8 and UTC+2\nNice to haves:\nBuilt services and exposed them as API for external consumption (e.g., gRPC).\nComfortable implementing system-level software (e.g., custom transport protocol) if needed or has contributed to Kubernetes controllers/operators.\nPublished blog posts and/or tech talks about your work.\nExperience working on small high-performing teams, preferably tech startups.\nLevel\nThis job is an IC3. You can read more about our job leveling philosophy in our Handbook.\nCompensation\n We pay above-market salaries because we want to hire exceptional people who can focus on building great products, not worrying about paying bills. As an open and transparent company, our compensation philosophy and pay bands are visible to every Sourcegraph teammate, and we strive to make our approach equitable, explainable, and competitive.\nYour base salary is determined by the IC3 pay band for your location zone (1-4). Our pay bands are informed by market data and designed to ensure competitive compensation wherever you live. During the recruiting process, we'll discuss the range applicable to you based on job level, relevant skills, experience, qualifications, and location zone.\nThe starting salary for the IC3 pay band in each zone is:\nZone 2: $148,000 USD\nZone 3: $111,000 USD\nZone 4: $74,000 USD\nIn addition to competitive cash compensation, we offer meaningful equity (because when Sourcegraph succeeds, we want you to succeed, too) and generous perks & benefits.\nInterview process \nBelow is the interview process you can expect for this role (you can read more about the types of interviews in our Handbook). It may look like a lot of steps, but rest assured that we move quickly and the steps are designed to help you get the information needed to determine if we’re the right fit for you… Interviewing is a two-way street, after all! \nWe expect the interview process to take 4.75 hours in total.\nIntroduction Stage - we have initial conversations to get to know you better…\n[30m] Recruiter Screen\n[30m] Hiring Manager Screen\nTeam Interview Stage - we then delve into your experience in more depth and introduce you to members of the team, including cross-functional partners…\n[Async] Take-home exercise\n[60m] Take-home exercise walkthrough + System Design\n[60m] Pairing Exercise \n[60m] Resume Deep Dive\n[60m]Cross-functional Team Collaboration Interview / Values Interview \nFinal Interview Stage - we move you to our final round, where you gain a better understanding of our business and values holistically…\n[30m] Leadership\nWe check references and conduct your background check\nPlease note - you are welcome to request additional conversations with anyone you would like to meet, but didn’t get to meet during the interview process.\nLearn more about us\nYou can learn more about what it is like to work at Sourcegraph by reading our handbook.\nWe are an ambitious team who are collectively working hard to build the most influential company in the world. 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