Engineering Manager

Sourcegraph

Completely RemoteFull TimeInformation Technology
Posted Yesterday

Job description

About the Company

Sourcegraph is the world’s most powerful code intelligence platform that developers and agents rely on to navigate, understand, and operate on massive, complex codebases. Teams at companies like Stripe, Uber, and Dropbox rely on Sourcegraph to ship faster and with higher quality.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a small team of individual contributors as a player-coach (up to 50% IC work)
  • Provide hands-on technical guidance on architecture, quality, and product trade-offs
  • Own the team's roadmap, weekly execution, and operational aspects
  • Partner with Product, Design, and Customer Engineering to translate customer feedback into shipped products
  • Manage the full performance cycle including hiring, onboarding, and career growth
  • Establish effective team practices for planning, code review, and decision-making

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience managing professional software engineering teams
  • Strong individual contributor background (IC4-equivalent) with ability to write high-quality code
  • Proven experience leading teams building end-user products (developer tools, AI products, or CLIs)
  • Experience shipping products consumed by or built for AI agents (MCP servers, agent SDKs, etc.)
  • Hands-on experience using and reasoning about coding agents like Claude Code or Cursor
  • Experience partnering with Product and Design to move features from idea to launch
  • Async-first communication skills and experience in globally distributed remote teams

Preferred Qualifications

  • Fluency in Go, TypeScript, React, SvelteKit, or GraphQL
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, Docker, or Kubernetes
  • Background in code intelligence, code search, or large-scale refactoring tools
  • Experience with monitoring, alerting, or security scanning products

Skills & tools

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What the team is looking for

Use this list as a quick fit check before you apply.

  1. 013+ years engineering management experience
  2. 02Strong IC background
  3. 03Experience with AI agent ecosystems
  4. 04Async-first communication skills
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