Engineering Manager, Sourcegraph

• You are a technical, customer-driven manager who works from a place of compassion and curiosity
• You have experience working with highly technical customers across business sectors
• You can work across departments to align requirements and priorities from a broad set of engineering, product, and business stakeholders
• You are strongly aligned with our values, inspired by our mission to make it so that everyone can code, and motivated to do your best work at Sourcegraph
• You find joy in solving complex technical problems at scale
• You have personal domain expertise with more than one of distributed systems, search and indexing, or programming language tooling such as compilers, build tools, static/semantic analysis, or language servers
• You may not code everyday, but you are eager to jump into the code for anything from answering a customer question to fixing a bug to adding some new functionality
• You have at least 4 years of experience managing engineering teams and 5 years of hands-on coding experience.You have held a high technical bar for teammates as well as yourself
• You have relevant domain knowledge and experience in one or more of the following areas: distributed systems, search and indexing, or compilers and language tools
• You can work effectively across multiple programming languages with and without prior experience
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values

Desirable

• As Engineering Manager, Product Platform, you’ll utilize both your leadership skills and technical acumen
• You will be instrumental in propelling Sourcegraph’s Code Search product to become the “Google of Code Search”
• You will help support Cody to become the top AI coding assistant. You will lead a team of high-agency, self-directed team mates and will have opportunities to dive in and be deeply technical yourself. You will report directly into the Head of Engineering - Search & Foundations
• 📅 Within one month, you will…
• Take responsibility for three distributed, FAANG-bar teams, roughly nine engineers, and lead them as a front-line manager. Your organization will grow as the company grows
• Work closely with other Engineering department heads on cross-functional initiatives that touch Code Search and Cody
• 📅 Within three months, you will…
• Identify any gaps you see in the Engineering org and help address them in an appropriate way, bringing prior experience to bear in recommending and driving solutions
• Build a variety of systems, many of which are systems that you yourself may already know we need, and are not listed here. A few examples include:
• A hybrid search architecture which combines modern ML and traditional search techniques for natural language search
• Extending our code graph to cover an ever growing set of languages with every easier configuration
• A scalable system for syncing any type of data relevant for Cody or Code Search data
• 📅 Within six months, you will…
• Champion customer engagement in all phases of design, development and deployment
• 📅 Within one year, you will…
• Have hired and retained exceptional people to make our team even more representative of the world’s population
• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to develop the next set of ambitious goals that your org should work towards
• Develop a clear technical and execution strategy to achieve that next set of goals

• 👋 Introduction Stage - we have initial conversations to get to know you better…
• [30m] Recruiter Screen with Devon Coords
• [60m] Technical Screen / Resume Deep Dive with Julie Tibshirani
• 🧑‍💻 Team Interview Stage - we then delve into your experience in more depth and introduce you to members of the team…
• [15m] Hiring Manager Intro with Erika Rice Scherpelz
• [45m] Cross-team collaboration & technical screen with Kalan Chan
• [60m] Technical Interview with Anton Sviridov & Erik Seliger
• [60m] Peer Interview / Values Interview with Peter Guy & Nelson Araujo
• 🎉 Final Interview Stage - we move you to our final round, where you meet cross-functional partners and gain a better understanding of our business and values holistically…
• [30m] Hiring Manager Interview with Erika Rice Scherpelz
• [30m] Co-founder Interview with Quinn Slack or Beyang Liu
• [30m] Closing meeting with Carly Jones
• We check references and conduct your background check
• We expect the interview process to take 6.5 hours in total