Software Engineer, Sourcegraph

• If you’re passionate about solving the hardest problems in software and shaping the future of technology, join us. Let’s build something extraordinary together
• You’re excited to work in a new space, bringing enterprise-grade security to an AI chat product
• 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
• Clear and empathetic communication skills
• Proficiency in Go (or other strongly typed languages with a desire, willingness, and ability to quickly ramp up on effective Go.)
• General knowledge about deploying/managing/utilizing services in Cloud environments (GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, etc. or similar)
• Skilled at architecting, debugging, building, testing, and reasoning about moderately complex distributed systems which intersect APIs and Services provided by other teams & companies
• Comfortable reasoning about API performance, service monitoring, metrics, alerting, etc. in moderately complex distributed systems (writing such code, and general intuition skills around OS primitives like network/CPU/memory, etc)
• Eagerness to help and assist other internal (and occasionally external) engineers with the institutional knowledge you will help build on the team
• Experience working on small high-performing teams, preferably tech startups, or a strong desire to join a fast-paced async team environment
• Your working hours overlap with 9am-5pm PT for at least 15 hours per week so we have time to collaborate synchronously when necessary

Desirable

• The Cody Prime team is responsible for the Enterprise service layer for Cody, providing services & tools to help Cody succeed in secure enterprise environments, and making it easier for Cody Core team to build enterprise-friendly features
• This is a new and unmapped space, building an AI product that meets high regulatory and compliance standards
• As an engineer on the Cody Prime team, you will work closely with engineers on the Cody Core and Core Services teams
• Build and operate resilient and secure services providing authorization and authentication for Cody
• Develop a roadmap and tooling for abuse detection and mitigation
• Extend and operate analytics services collecting data around usage metering, license management, billing, and rate limiting
• Within one month, you will…
• Onboard onto the Sourcegraph architecture, tooling, and development workflow
• Build 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
• Actively participate in team meetings, sharing ideas and insights to contribute to the overall team goals
• Start contributing to the team goals and deliverables by shipping new features, debugging issues, and fixing bugs
• Within three months, you will…
• Demonstrate an understanding of the Cody Prime service stack, its underlying technologies, and its integration within the Sourcegraph ecosystem
• Contribute to the implementation of new features or improvements in Go, with occasional opportunities to work on front-end features using JavaScript
• Participate in initiatives contributing to team goals on the roadmap by going through the entire product development lifecycle discovery, design, implementation, and delivery
• Participate in support of our production services
• Within six months, you will…
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of the Cody Gateway and Cody Analytics products
• Contribute new features to both services with assistance from senior engineers on the team
• Collaborate with teams across the company on projects that benefit from cross-team expertise, particularly those involving monetization or analytics of the Cody product
• You bring a product mindset in balancing design philosophy with meeting customer demand, balancing the requirements of enterprise-grade production services with the rapid iteration requirements of the AI space
• You think in terms of building self-service platforms and APIs, which reduce manual operations and enable other developers
• 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

• We expect the interview process to take 5.75 hours in total
• 👋 Introduction Stage - we have initial conversations to get to know you better…
• [30m] Recruiter Screen
• [15m] Hiring Manager Intro
• 🧑‍💻 Team Interview Stage - we then schedule team interviews to delve into your experience in more depth and introduce you to members of the team, including cross-functional partners…
• [45m] Technical Screen / Resume Deep Dive
• [60m] Coding exercise
• [60m] Coding exercise
• [60m] System design
• [45m] Cross-functional Team Collaboration Interview / Values Interview
• [30m] Leadership with co-founder
• We check references and conduct your background check
• 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