Tech Lead, Code Plane: AI-Driven DevTools Leader

Real Work From Anywhere; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

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.