Software Engineer, Sourcegraph
Development Infrastructure
$170-195.5k
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office (Presidio, CA)
Universal code search and code intelligence for developers
Open for applications
Universal code search and code intelligence for developers
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$170-195.5k
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office (Presidio, CA)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make it so everyone, in every community, in every country, and in every industry can create products using the best technology.
Role
Who you are
- As the ideal candidate, you bring a solution-oriented mindset and a passion for developer productivity
- You prioritize high-impact work. You invest in the future while unblocking developers in the present
- Build systems: Strong experience with Bazel and familiarity with other hermetic build systems like Buck2 or Nix
- CI/CD: Extensive exposure to various CI systems such as Buildkite, GitHub Actions, GitLab Runners, and Jenkins
- Infrastructure as code: Skilled in IaC tools like Terraform (or Pulumi, Helm, Kustomize, Ansible, Salt)
- Efficiency Enthusiast: A tinkerer at heart who constantly seeks to automate processes and improve efficiency. Has a history of developing small, useful tools to solve problems
- Polyglot developer: Comfortable working with multiple programming languages and always eager to learn new ones. Go and Typescript familiarity preferred
What the job involves
- We're responsible for building and maintaining the tools and systems that make Sourcegraph's development processes smooth, efficient, and reliable
- We create and optimize tools and workflows that enhance productivity for Sourcegraph's engineering teams
- This includes improving build systems, implementing code quality tools, managing CI/CD pipelines, and streamlining development environments
- Within one month, you will…
- Understand the projects your team is working on and their contribution to company goals
- Collaborate with other engineers to identify and address infrastructure challenges
- Contribute to team goals through code contributions and technical discussions
- 📅 Within three months, you will…
- Collaborate with other engineers to identify and address infrastructure challenges
- Contribute to efforts that make it easier for developers to build, run, and test our products
- Effectively support engineers across Sourcegraph to increase their productivity
- 📅 Within six months, you will…
- Demonstrate measurable improvements in build times, CI/CD stability, and developer experience
- Lead efforts to find and implement improvements in underserved parts of the stack
- Drive high levels of satisfaction from internal developers
- 📅 Within one year, you will…
- Lead efforts to scale our developer infrastructure to be more automated and reliable
- Shape our dev infrastructure practices, contributing to company-wide best practices for build and CI/CD workflows
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
- [15m] Hiring Manager Screen
- 🧑💻 Team Interview Stage - we then schedule an all-day onsite interview to delve into your experience in more depth and introduce you to members of the team, including cross-functional partners…
- [60m] Technical Screen / Resume Deep Dive
- [60m] Coding Exercise
- [60m] Coding Exercise
- [45m] Systems Design
- [45m] Cross-functional / Values
- [15m] Leadership with co-founder
- Please 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
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, including third-party libraries and any programming language. 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.
Recently the company launched Cody, an open-source AI tool that enhanced coding practices. Utilizing models like GPT-4 Turbo and StarCoder, Cody offers smart code suggestions and contextual insights within popular code editors. As software development continues to evolve, Cody exemplifies Sourcegraph's dedication to driving progress and shaping the future of development with innovative AI solutions.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2021
$125m
SERIES D
Dec 2020
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $223m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Quinn Slack
(CEO)Previously co-founded Blend Labs, an Enterprise Technology company with ~500 employees dedicated to improving home lending. They 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)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. Beyang studied Computer Science at Stanford, where they published research in probabilistic graphical models and computer vision at the Stanford AI Lab.
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