Software Engineer/Tech Lead - Code Plane [IC5]

Sourcegraph is a leading code intelligence platform that empowers developers to navigate and operate on complex codebases. They are seeking a Software Engineer/Tech Lead to lead the Code Plane team, focusing on building AI-driven products that enhance developer productivity and streamline code changes across large repositories.

Responsibilities:

• Build relationships across your team and familiarize yourself with its surface area - Batch Changes, Agentic Batch Changes, Code Monitors, Code Insights, src CLI - by running them as a user and an agent would, and form a point of view on the most important product and technical bets to make next
• Meet your cross-functional partners in Product, Design, Solutions Engineering, and adjacent engineering teams, and start translating customer feedback into a concrete view of what the team should ship
• Join the team's on-call support rotation
• Own a meaningful slice of Agentic Batch Changes end-to-end and ship critical pieces yourself
• Be the technical lead for the team's roadmap, scoping and sequencing projects across the team's product surfaces, setting clear expectations for ownership, and clarifying priorities
• Strengthen the team practices that make their work reliable: how we design, review, test, and deliver
• Mentor teammates and continue to build high-trust relationships
• Be the recognized technical visionary for Code Plane: to your teammates, and increasingly the wider department, defer to on architecture, quality, and product trade-offs in this space
• Be known across the company as the person who deeply understands what customers and agent ecosystems need from Code Plane, and where Sourcegraph should invest next
• Be setting the direction of the team's roadmap with conviction backed by evidence, and mobilizing other engineers to execute on it

Requirements:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• A strong technical background, with the ability to provide technical guidance on architecture, code quality, and trade-offs
• Proven experience on teams that build end-user product features — ideally developer tools, agent/AI products, CLIs, or other technical product surfaces
• Experience partnering closely with Product and Design to take features from idea to shipped, and incorporating customer feedback into the roadmap
• Customer-facing experience: discovery calls, design partnerships, incorporating feedback loops into a roadmap
• Experience shipping products consumed by or built for AI agents (MCP servers, agent SDKs, agentic dev tooling, agent-friendly CLIs)
• Hands-on experience using and reasoning about coding agents (Amp, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar), with strong opinions about what good looks like when humans and agents share a workflow
• Async-first communication skills and experience working in a globally distributed remote team
• Fluency with the stack the Code Plane team works in: Go, TypeScript/React (and ideally SvelteKit), GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL, Docker/Kubernetes, and a multi-service environment
• Experience with developer tools, code intelligence, code search, or large-scale code transformation/refactoring products
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, or 'signals over code' products (e.g., security scanners, lint platforms, code-quality tools)
• Experience designing and shipping CLIs that are pleasant for both humans and agents to use
• Experience as a Team or Tech Lead on a software engineering team