Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sourcegraph is a leading code intelligence platform that empowers developers to navigate and operate on complex codebases. The Engineering Manager for Code Plane will lead a team responsible for building products that utilize AI, focusing on improving the developer experience and driving product development in a collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
- Build relationships with your direct reports through 1:1s, understand each person's strengths, goals, and current projects, and set a steady cadence for team meetings, planning, and retros
- Get hands-on with the team's surface area — Batch Changes, MCP, 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
- Own the team's roadmap and weekly execution: scope and sequence work across multiple product surfaces, set clear expectations for ownership, and unblock the team early and often
- Ship meaningful work with the team and use the outcomes to refine how the team plans and prioritizes
- Give direct, useful feedback on performance and career growth, and help reports articulate their own goals for impact and personal development
- Be fully accountable for the operational, people, and roadmap aspects of Code Plane, and a strong technical voice on architecture, quality, and product trade-offs
- Have established a culture and a set of team practices — planning, code review, decision-making, on-call where relevant — that make the team consistently effective
- 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 proactively managing performance: cultivating top performers, addressing under-performance early and humanely, and continuing to raise the bar on hiring
- Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to develop the next set of ambitious goals that your org should work towards
- Develop a clear technical and execution strategy to achieve that next set of goals
Skills
- 3+ years managing a team of professional software engineers, with experience running the full performance cycle: hiring, onboarding, feedback, career growth, and managing out when necessary
- A strong IC background (IC4-equivalent), with the ability to provide technical guidance on architecture, code quality, and trade-offs, and the ability to write high quality code when it becomes necessary to jump in
- Proven experience leading 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 kind of 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
Benefits
- Equity (because when we succeed as a company, we want you to succeed, too)
- Generous perks & benefits
- Flexibility to work and live anywhere in the world
- Sourcegraph participates in E-Verify for U.S. Employees.
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