Software Engineer - Code Search [IC2]

Location

🌎 While we hire almost anywhere in the world, we require someone to reside in San Francisco for this role.

Why this job is exciting

Sourcegraph Code Search is an advanced, user-friendly code search and navigation tool designed to help developers efficiently understand, navigate, and review the software they're working on, irrespective of its size or complexity. It offers a web-based, universal code search capability across various repositories, branches, and languages, enabling quick and accurate search results with context. It also provides features such as semantic code search, syntax highlighting, hover tooltips, and real-time code insights, significantly reducing the time spent understanding codebases or hunting for specific logic. With integrations into popular version control systems and code editors, Sourcegraph Code Search aids in code exploration, bug squashing, and feature development, making it an indispensable tool for modern development teams.

The Code Search team is aimed at growing the Code Search product into a 100+ million dollar product that is an integral part of every Fortune-500 company’s workflow. As a software engineer on the Code Search team, you will contribute to the direction of Sourcegraph’s Code Search product. With your expertise, you will be in the thick of maintaining, expanding, and shaping the future of the product, ensuring it meets the needs of our largest enterprise customers.

📅 Within one month, you will…

• Onboard onto the Sourcegraph codebase, architecture, tooling, and development workflow.
• Build a solid understanding of the team’s areas of ownership, technical challenges, and problems the team solves for our customers, and know how all of these align with the top-level company goals.
• Actively participate in team meetings, sharing ideas and insights to contribute to the overall team goals.
• Work closely with your team members, asking questions and seeking feedback to ensure alignment and clear understanding of tasks.
• Begin making meaningful contributions to ongoing projects, demonstrating a clear understanding of our coding standards and methodologies.

📅 Within three months, you will…

• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the Code Search product, its underlying technologies, and its integration within the Sourcegraph ecosystem.
• Begin to take ownership of specific areas of the product, showcasing expertise and problem-solving capabilities.
• Regularly participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and upholding our high standards of code quality.
• Engage in team discussions on architectural design, scalability, and other higher-level aspects, bringing clarity and forward momentum to such conversations.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior team members, fostering their growth and development within the Code Search team.
• Lead or co-lead smaller projects, showcasing strong scoping, implementation, and delivery skills.
• Proactively identify potential challenges in projects and work towards mitigating risks and ensuring smooth execution.

📅 Within six months, you will…

• Act as a go-to expert within your domain, helping to address complex challenges, guide the team through intricate issues, and define best practices.
• Proactively dive into unfamiliar areas of the codebase, suggesting improvements, and ensuring that our technical infrastructure remains robust and forward-looking.
• Have a significant influence on the team’s roadmap, proposing new features, optimizations, and refactors based on customer needs, technical debt, and industry best practices.
• Lead larger projects from conception to deployment, ensuring that they align with our strategic objectives and adhere to our quality standards.
• Play a pivotal role in shaping the team's culture, ensuring that it remains collaborative, innovative, and focused on continuous growth.
• Actively mentor junior team members and collaborate with other senior engineers, ensuring their success within their teams.

About you

You are a passionate Full-stack Software Engineer with 2-5 years of hands-on experience, eagerly seeking a challenging role that allows you to leverage your technical skills while also offering opportunities for learning and growth. Your coding skills are solid, and you are proficient in your primary focus area, yet you remain open and excited to dive into different parts of the technology stack.

You are eager to continue building your track record of excellence, autonomy, and the expertise to solve complex software engineering challenges.

While you are task-oriented and able to follow directions, you are also demonstrating a growing sense of independence in your work. You are self-sufficient, capable of delivering results with minimal guidance, and unafraid to take the lead on small and mid-sized projects. You are adaptable, thriving in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. You take ownership of your work, you are self-motivated, and you exhibit a strong sense of accountability and responsibility for the success of the product.

Qualifications:

• You are proficient in Go, with exposure to scaling and concurrency.
• You are proficient with Typescript and Javascript frameworks; experience with React and SvelteKit is a plus.
• You have some knowledge of GraphQL.
• You are comfortable with Docker and Kubernetes.
• You are comfortable interacting with relational databases; PostgreSQL experience is a plus.
• You are comfortable with the command-line interface and bash scripting.
• You are comfortable in a multi-service environment.
• You can utilize Bazel as a build tool.
• You are familiar with macOS and Linux platforms.

Level

📊 This job is an IC2. You can read more about our job leveling philosophy in our Handbook.

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. As an open and transparent company that values competitive compensation, our compensation ranges are visible to every single Sourcegraph teammate.

Your salary is determined by your pay band for the IC2 job level. For determining pay bands, we use a number of market and data-driven salary sources, along with your location zone, and target the high-end of the range to ensure we’re always paying above market regardless of where you live in the world. Both U.S. and international locations are divided into one of four zones, determined by the cost of labor index for each area. The salary for a successful candidate will be based on level, job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and location zone. Please note that the salaries below may be adjusted in the future.

💰The target compensation for this role is $145,000 USD base. 

Please speak with a recruiter for additional information regarding zone locations.

📈 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! 

We expect the interview process to take 4.25 hours in total.

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

• [30m] Recruiter Screen
• [15m] Hiring Manager Intro

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

• [45m] Technical Screen / Resume Deep Dive
• [45m] Pairing Exercise
• [45m] Code Walkthrough
• [60m] Cross-functional Team Collaboration Interview / Values Interview
• [15m] Leadership with co-founder 
• 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.