Tech Lead – Code Plane

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Establish the technical and product vision for the Code Plane team

• Lead the roadmap from initial issues to final product delivery

• Ensure the engineering team remains unblocked and productive

• Operate as a generalist across backend, AI agents, and frontend

• Oversee Batch Changes, Agentic Batch Changes, Code Monitors, Code Insights, and the src CLI product areas

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Customer Engineering, Solutions Engineering, and related engineering teams

• Convert customer feedback into product and technical priorities

• Utilize Sourcegraph products as both a user and an agent

• Participate in the on-call support rotation

• Manage a significant portion of Agentic Batch Changes from start to finish and deliver essential components

• Define and prioritize roadmap projects while clarifying ownership

• Enhance design, review, testing, and delivery practices

• Mentor team members and cultivate high-trust relationships

• Act as the technical visionary for Code Plane, directing architecture, quality, and product trade-offs

• Inspire engineers to carry out the roadmap

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of professional software engineering experience

• Proficient in Go, TypeScript, SvelteKit, React, GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL, Docker, and Kubernetes within a multi-service environment

• Strong technical expertise to guide architecture, code quality, and trade-offs

• Demonstrated experience in developing end-user product features, preferably in developer tools, agent/AI products, CLIs, or technical product surfaces

• Experience collaborating with Product and Design to develop features from concept to delivery and integrate customer feedback into the roadmap

• Developed components that agents or other software utilize, such as MCP servers, agent SDKs, tool surfaces, harnesses, or a CLI intended for non-human users

• Practical experience with coding agents like Amp, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar

• Excellent async-first communication skills and experience in a globally distributed remote team

• Availability to work overlapping with CEST for at least 20 hours per week

• Strongly preferred: experience managing autonomous work at scale

• Strongly preferred: experience overseeing an inherited service with paying customers

• Strongly preferred: proven track record of elevating engineering standards

• Strongly preferred: experience in architectural decision-making under uncertainty

• Strongly preferred: experience defining metrics for systems with no single correct answer

• Strongly preferred: customer-facing technical discovery experience

• Strongly preferred: experience serving as a Team or Tech Lead

🏝️ Benefits

• Meaningful equity

• Competitive cash compensation

• Generous perks and benefits

• Above-market salaries

• Globally distributed remote work