Tech Lead, Code Plane: AI-Driven DevTools Leader

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United States

Remote

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Sourcegraph is seeking a technical leader for Code Plane to set technical and product direction, drive the roadmap from issue to shipped, and keep the team unblocked in a fast-moving environment.

You are a hands-on software engineer with 8+ years' experience across backend, frontend, and AI agent products, comfortable shaping architecture, metrics, and trade-offs while mentoring others in a globally distributed, async culture.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Fluency across stack: Go, TypeScript, SvelteKit, React, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience building end-user product features—ideally developer tools, CLIs, or agent/AI products.
  • Experience partnering with Product and Design to take features from idea to shipped.
  • Hands-on experience with coding agents (MCP servers, agent SDKs, tool surfaces, or a CLI).
  • Async-first communication in globally distributed teams.
  • You have shipped for the agent ecosystem and can guide architecture, quality, and trade-offs.

Responsibilities

  • Own the Roadmap for Code Plane surfaces: Batch Changes, Agentic Batch Changes, Code Monitors, Code Insights, and src CLI.
  • Be the technical lead for the team's roadmap, setting ownership and priorities and driving delivery across surfaces.
  • Mentor teammates and strengthen engineering practices, reviews, testing, and release processes.
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Solutions Engineering, and other engineering teams to translate customer feedback into shipped products.

Skills

Software engineering
Go
TypeScript
React
GraphQL
PostgreSQL
Docker
Kubernetes
AI / agent tooling
Architectural guidance
Async communication
Remote collaboration

Tools

MCP servers
Agent SDKs
Tool surfaces
CLI

Job description

Sourcegraph is seeking a technical leader for Code Plane to set technical and product direction, drive the roadmap from issue to shipped, and keep the team unblocked in a fast-moving environment.

You are a hands-on software engineer with 8+ years' experience across backend, frontend, and AI agent products, comfortable shaping architecture, metrics, and trade-offs while mentoring others in a globally distributed, async culture.

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