Software Engineer, Sourcegraph
Dev Infra
$68-170k
+ Equity, Salary dependent on location
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
$68-170k
+ Equity, Salary dependent on location
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
- 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
- 📅 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
- 👋 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 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
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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