Software Engineer/Tech Lead - Code Plane

Role Description

We are hiring you to be the technical leader around whom this team rallies. Our product surfaces are evolving drastically as agents reshape how software is built, and we are adjusting our engineering teams to match. It is an exciting time, and a rare chance to be a strong leader shaping dev tools for the agentic age of coding. Code Plane owns high-stakes, fast-moving products at the center of that shift and needs a tech lead who will:

• Set technical and product direction.
• Drive the roadmap from issue to shipped.
• Keep the team unblocked and moving.
• Work directly with customers, design partners, and cross-functional partners to translate real customer needs into a concrete plan.

The team's surface areas include:

• Batch Changes: Helps developers automate large-scale code changes across all of an enterprise's repositories.
• Agentic Batch Changes: An outer-loop agent that orchestrates coding agents to roll out changes across the world’s largest codebases.
• Code Monitors and Code Insights: Products that notify based on detected changes in critical code and turn a codebase into data for business decisions.
• The src CLI tool: The command-line surface that humans and agents use to automate Sourcegraph in their workflows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• A strong technical background with the ability to provide technical guidance on architecture, code quality, and trade-offs.
• Proven experience on 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.
• Customer-facing experience: discovery calls, design partnerships, incorporating feedback loops into a roadmap.
• Experience shipping products consumed by or built for AI agents.
• Hands-on experience using and reasoning about coding agents.
• Async-first communication skills and experience working in a globally distributed remote team.

Requirements

• Strong opinions about what good looks like when humans and agents share a workflow.
• Experience as a Team or Tech Lead on a software engineering team.

Benefits

• Competitive cash compensation.
• Meaningful equity.
• Generous perks & benefits.

Interview Process

Below is the interview process you can expect for this role:

• Introduction Stage: Initial conversations to get to know you better.
• Recruiter Screen: 30 minutes.
• Hiring Manager Screen / Resume Deep Dive: 45 minutes.
• Team Interview Stage: Delve into your experience in more depth.
• Technical Interview: 60 minutes.
• Cross-functional team collaboration / Values: 60 minutes.
• Final Interview Stage: Gain a better understanding of our business and values.
• Leadership: We check references and conduct your background check.