Software Engineer, Sourcegraph
Cody Strategy
$141.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
Universal code search for developers
Job no longer available
Universal code search for developers
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$141.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make it so everyone codes by building the tools that keep developers at the bleeding edge.
Role
Who you are
- You are a full-stack software engineer with at least 2 years of industry experience, equally comfortable with frontend and backend work as needed, with the ability to pick up frameworks quickly and deliver high-quality work
- . Ideally, you have worked directly with enterprise customers as a SaaS developer. Or perhaps you have worked with internal customers on large cross-functional projects
- You should enjoy cross-functional, cross-company collaboration, since that is the bread and butter of the Cody Strat team
- Comfortable with developing and deploying software and services on at least one major Cloud provider, with preference for experience with GCP, as most of your Cloud work will be on GCP
- Comfortable with at least the basics of Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, and systems programming
- Experience with Go (minimum) and in an ideal world, TypeScript, Java, and various scripting languages
- You have used Cody and understand Cody’s current architecture, and you have your own opinions about the directions it could and should go next
Desirable
- Postgres. If you have very deep Postgres experience, you may be in luck
- Node.js. Cody’s cross-client logic is largely in Node.js, and being able to contribute there is helpful
- Understanding of the modern LLM ecosystem especially as it pertains to coding and AI assistants, including the basics of prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications
- Understanding of compiler construction, and experience working with tools that work with code. We have a code graph that is central to Cody’s operation, and you may be working with it at scale
- Frontend programming with React. If you have this specialty, it’s often in demand on this team, e.g. for delivering new administrative workflows and user onboarding experiences
- Rust. More and more of our code is being written in Rust, and you may need to fiddle with it at some point
- Kotlin and Java Swing, since one of our flagship Cody clients is IntelliJ, and it is often in need of Enterprise-specific features to help close large deals
- Plugin development with Neovim or Emacs. Our Strat customers come in all shapes and sizes
What the job involves
- This person will be needed to work 4pm to 10pm UTC Monday to Friday
- You will work closely with the ML Infrastructure team, all the Cody teams across Cody’s e2e service stack, and teams across Sourcegraph to bring the best-of-class coding assistant to your favorite big brands
- The Strat team focuses on one or two projects at a time, delivers and scales them, and then works to hand them off to the other Cody teams so that it just becomes part of how Cody is operated
- This is high-impact work and has the attention of the entire company
- You will be supported by Eng, Design, Product, Legal and the go-to-market teams, and you are joining a team of very talented and experienced engineers who have already accomplished amazing things in a short time
- 📅 Within one month, you will…
- Start building a trusting relationship with your peers, and learning the company structure
- Be set up to do local development, and be actively prototyping
- Ship a substantial new feature to end users
- 📅 Within three months, you will…
- Be seen as a subject matter expert in all things Cody at Sourcegraph
- Be contributing actively to the world’s best coding assistant
- Be following all the relevant research, and conducting research of your own
- 📅 Within six months, you will…
- Be fully ramped up and able to anticipate the needs of strategic customers
- Be ramped up on other relevant parts of the Sourcegraph product
- Be helping design and build what might become the biggest dev accelerator in 20 years
Application process
- We expect the interview process to take 5.5 hours in total
- 👋 Introduction Stage - we have initial conversations to get to know you better…
- [30m] Recruiter Screen
- [60m] Peer Technical Interview / Resume Deep Dive
- 🧑💻 Team Interview Stage - we then delve into your experience in more depth and introduce you to members of the team…
- [60m] Code Walkthrough
- [60m] Pairing Exercise
- [30m] Stakeholders Interview
- [30m] Values Interview
- 🎉 Final Interview Stage - we move you to our final round, where you gain a better understanding of our business and values holistically…
- [60m] Hiring Manager Interview
- [30m] Leadership Interview with co-founder
- We check references and conduct your background check
Our take
Inspired by code search engines like OpenGrok, Livegrep and Google Code Search, Sourcegraph has developed a robust tool that allows developers to swiftly search through code across an entire organization. While similar systems are used by large-scale organizations, Sourcegraph aims to make this powerful code search capability accessible to every developer.
Searching through extensive codebases, especially during debugging, can be time-consuming and tiresome. Sourcegraph streamlines this process, saving time and reducing stress for both individuals and businesses. The platform offers a free version for all developers, while revenue is generated through enterprise-specific features tailored for large corporations.
The launch of Cody, an open-source AI tool that enhances coding practices, saw the company expand into AI coding agents - although this part of its business is now splitting off into "Amp". This leaves the Sourcegraph team to focus on delivering and innovating its code search product, which is now a mission-critical piece of AI infrastructure software for many businesses.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2021
$125m
SERIES D
Dec 2020
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $223m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental and vision (100% company-paid)
- Unlimited PTO with a 30 day minimum
- Wellness stipend
- Generous travel budgets
- Family planning benefits
- Equity
- Office budget
- Professional development
- Global, remote-friendly team with hubs in key cities
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Quinn Slack
(Board Member & Co-founder)CEO and Member of Technical Staff at Amp Code. Previously co-founded Blend Labs, and also worked at Palantir Technologies where they created a technology platform to help two of the top five U.S. banks recover from the housing crisis.
Beyang Liu
(CTO & Co-founder)Previously a Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies, where they developed new data analysis software on a small, customer-facing team working with Fortune 500 companies. Studied Computer Science at Stanford.
Dan Adler
(CEO)Joined the company in 2016 as Director of BizOps and Strategy. Became VP of Business in 2018, then CEO in 2025. Previously founded Cells Software, was an Investment Associate at Vector Capital, and Consultant at Bain & Company.
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