Software Engineer, Team Lead

Sourcegraph

Technical leader for Code Plane, shaping products that empower developers and AI agents with Sourcegraph's code intelligence platform. Collaborating globally to drive product direction and technical excellence.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeRemote • 🏈 Anywhere in North AmericaSenior💰 $240,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build relationships across your team and familiarize yourself with its surface area - Batch Changes, Agentic Batch Changes, 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.
Join the team's on-call support rotation.
Own a meaningful slice of Agentic Batch Changes end-to-end and ship critical pieces yourself.
Be the technical lead for the team's roadmap, scoping and sequencing projects across the team's product surfaces, setting clear expectations for ownership, and clarifying priorities.
Strengthen the team practices that make their work reliable: how we design, review, test, and deliver.
Mentor teammates and continue to build high-trust relationships.
Be the recognized technical visionary for Code Plane: to your teammates, and increasingly the wider department, defer to on architecture, quality, and product trade-offs in this space.
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 setting the direction of the team's roadmap with conviction backed by evidence, and mobilizing other engineers to execute on it.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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, 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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

equity (because when we succeed as a company, we want you to succeed, too)
generous perks & benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

Software EngineeringArchitecture DesignCode Quality AssessmentProduct DevelopmentFeature ShippingCustomer Feedback IntegrationEnd-User Product FeaturesCoding Agents ReasoningTechnical Product Surfaces

Soft Skills

MentoringBuilding High-Trust RelationshipsCross-Functional Collaboration