Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop inter-cloud connectivity solutions to support enterprise customers from highly regulated industries to use Sourcegraph Cloud.
• Build a control plane to orchestrate a fleet of single-tenant Sourcegraph Cloud instances.
• Expose complex infrastructure as APIs to support internal customers to iterate faster.
• Dive into upstream dependencies (e.g., CDK for Terraform, Terraform providers for GCP) to debug and patch non-trivial problems.
• Advocate for building reliable services and work with leadership to help product teams achieve operational excellence.
• Participate in on-call rotation to uphold contractual SLA commitments.

Within one month:

• Onboard onto the Sourcegraph architecture, tooling, and development workflow.
• Build understanding of team’s areas of ownership, technical challenges, and customer problems.
• Actively participate in team meetings and start contributing by shipping features, debugging, and fixing bugs.

Within three months:

• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of Cloud infrastructure and its integration.
• Lead initiatives through discovery and delivery, collaborating with product, design, engineering, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to architectural design and implementation of new features.
• Participate in on-call rotation.

Within six months:

• Define long-term technical vision and strategies for new product development, scaling services, and managing technical debt.
• Collaborate with Engineering Manager on team’s growth strategy.
• Seek customer and stakeholder feedback to iterate on Cloud infrastructure.

Requirements

• Proficiency in Go, or other strongly typed languages.
• Knowledge in one of the public cloud platform providers (GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Experience with Terraform (or similar IaC solutions) and Kubernetes to build tooling and automation.
• Skilled at debugging distributed systems, followed by designing and implementing solutions. Familiarity with OS-level primitives (network, CPU, memory).
• Ability to communicate clearly and empathetically, especially in writing and documentation.
• Preferred time zone between UTC-8 and UTC+2.

Nice-to-Haves

• Built services and exposed them as APIs for external consumption (e.g., gRPC).
• Comfortable implementing system-level software (e.g., custom transport protocol) or has contributed to Kubernetes controllers/operators.
• Published blog posts and/or tech talks about your work.
• Experience working on small high-performing teams, preferably tech startups.

Compensation

Target compensation (IC3 pay band start):

• Zone 2: $148000
• Zone 3: $111000
• Zone 4: $74000

Salary determined by level, skills, experience, qualifications, and location zone. Includes equity and benefits.