Engineering Manager - Code Plane [M3]

Working hours

🌎 While we hire almost anywhere in the world, we have a preference for someone to reside in the following locations for this role. However, if you feel qualified, we welcome you to apply regardless of location. No matter what, working hours must overlap with EST for at least 20 hours/week.

Preferred locations:

• North America (EST)
• Europe
• South America

Level

This job is an M3. You can read more about our job leveling philosophy in our Handbook. At M3, you'll lead a small team of strong individual contributors as a player-coach: up to 50% of your time may be spent contributing as an IC, and you'll be expected to provide hands-on technical guidance as well as the people, operational, and roadmap work.

Why this job is exciting

The Code Plane team owns the Sourcegraph products that help developers - and the agents working on their behalf - take action on code, at scale, on the world's largest codebases. Think “data plane” and “control plane” for enterprise code.

This is a team that builds products that use AI and products for AI. The roadmap, the architecture, and the day-to-day technical decisions all hinge on a solid experience with and a clear-eyed view of what AI models and agents are good at, where they fail, and how to design products around them. A strong handle on and opinion of AI, formed from real-world, hands-on use, not just observation, is a hard requirement for this role. If you're excited to ship for the AI agent ecosystem rather than simply watch from the sidelines, you'll find a lot to love here.

The team's surface areas include

• Batch Changes - our battle-tested execution layer for massive cross-repo changes helps developers automate large-scale code changes across all of an enterprise's repositories: keeping code up-to-date, fixing critical security issues, and paying down tech debt, with every change tracked through checks and code review until it merges. Teams at Stripe, Uber, Dropbox, Lyft, Reddit, and others use it to drive migrations, refactors, and security fixes. Building on this product, we’re working toward an agent in the outer-loop to turn a prompt into a staged, self-healing rollout, complete with CI feedback loops and post-publish remediation.
• Executors, the execution infrastructure that runs Batch Changes workloads. As we scale into agent-driven workflows, this is critical infrastructure that has to be rock solid.
• The Sourcegraph MCP Server, which connects the leading coding agents to Sourcegraph's code intelligence: search (keyword and semantic), commits, diffs, file/repo browsing, and Deep Search for deeper understanding. Stripe's Minion agents use it to pull internal context and code intelligence in their end-to-end coding workflows.
• Code Monitors and Code Insights - turning code changes into data to back up business decisions and creating dashboards surfacing critical info about repos
• The src CLI tool - the command-line surface that humans and the agents they employ use to automate Sourcegraph in their workflows.

The features your team ships are used directly by developers and by agents working on their behalf, and you'll partner closely with Product, Design, Customer Engineering, and adjacent engineering teams to turn customer pain into shipped product. 

Within one month, you will…

• 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.

Within three months, you will…

• 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.

Within six months, you will…

• 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.

Within one year, you will…

• 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.

About you 

You are an Engineering Manager with 3+ years of experience leading product-facing engineering teams, and a background as a strong IC engineer before that. You've shipped customer-facing products to real users, on real timelines, with real cross-functional partners.

 You lead a small team well: you run effective 1:1s, you set clear expectations, you give feedback early, and your team trusts you to have their back. You're comfortable being the technical voice in the room without needing to be the smartest person in it — you guide architecture and quality decisions, you regularly write code on smaller paths, and you hold the team to a high technical standard.

 You think in terms of customers and outcomes, not tickets. You're at home translating fuzzy product input into a clear roadmap, scoping with Product and Design, and making calls about what to cut so the team can ship. You have a point of view on coding agents — what they're good at, where they fail, and how products can make them dramatically more useful — and you're excited to ship for that ecosystem rather than just observe it.

 You actively contribute to a collaborative, respectful, async-first culture. You communicate thoughtfully and proactively, you keep stakeholders informed without being asked, and you're not afraid to push back — or to change your mind when someone has a better idea.

Qualifications:

• 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.

Nice to haves:

• 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.

Compensation

💸 We pay you an above-average salary because we want to hire the best people who are fully focused on helping Sourcegraph succeed, not worried about paying bills. You will have the flexibility to work and live anywhere in the world (unless specified otherwise in the job description), and we’ll never take your current/past salary information into account when determining your compensation.  As an open and transparent company that values equitable and competitive compensation for everyone, our compensation ranges are visible to every single Sourcegraph Teammate. To determine your salary, we use a number of market and data-driven salary sources and target the high-end of the range, ensuring that we’re always paying above market regardless of where you live in the world.  

The target compensation for this role is 

• Zone 2: $ 192,000 USD base
• Zone 3: $ 144,000 USD base
• Zone 4: $ 96,000 USD base

In addition to our cash compensation, we offer equity (because when we succeed as a company, we want you to succeed, too) and generous perks & benefits.

Interview process

Below is the interview process you can expect for this role (you can read more about the types of interviews in our Handbook). It may look like a lot of steps, but rest assured that we move quickly and the steps are designed to help you get the information needed to determine if we’re the right fit for you… Interviewing is a two-way street, after all! 

👋 Introduction Stage - we have initial conversations to get to know you better…

• [30m] Recruiter Screen 
• [45m] Hiring Manager Screen / Resume Deep Dive

🧑‍💻 Team Interview Stage - we then delve into your experience in more depth and introduce you to members of the team, including cross-functional partners…

• [60m] Technical Interview
• [45m] Cross-functional Team Collaboration Interview
• [60m] Peer Interview
• [30m] Values Interview
• We check references and conduct your background check

Please note - you are welcome to request additional conversations with anyone you would like to meet, but didn’t get to meet during the interview process.