Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sourcegraph is a leading company in code intelligence, focused on transforming how software is built. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Code Plane team, which develops products that enhance developer productivity and leverage AI technologies.
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 *(unless specified otherwise in the job description)*
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