Software Engineer - Platform [IC3]

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Develop inter-cloud connectivity solutions for enterprise customers in highly regulated industries
• ▹Build a control plane to orchestrate a fleet of single-tenant Sourcegraph Cloud instances
• ▹Expose complex infrastructure as an API for internal customers
• ▹Dive into upstream dependencies (e.g. CDK for Terraform, Terraform providers for GCP) to debug and patch problems
• ▹Advocate for reliable services and work with leadership toward operational excellence
• ▹Participate in the on-call rotation to uphold contractual SLA commitments

Requirements

• ▹Proficiency in Go or other strongly typed languages
• ▹Knowledge of one of the public cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• ▹Experience with Terraform (or similar IaC) and Kubernetes to build tooling and automation
• ▹Skilled at debugging distributed systems and designing solutions, with knowledge of OS-level primitives (network, CPU, memory)
• ▹Clear and empathetic communication, especially in writing and documentation
• ▹Preferred time zone between UTC-8 and UTC+2, with at least 20 hours per week of overlap with EST

Nice to have

• ▹Built services exposed as APIs for external consumption (e.g. gRPC)
• ▹Implemented system-level software or contributed to Kubernetes controllers/operators
• ▹Published blog posts or tech talks
• ▹Experience on small high-performing teams, preferably tech startups

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Above-average salary
• ▹Equity
• ▹Generous perks and benefits
• ▹Globally distributed, remote team

About the company

Sourcegraph builds a code intelligence platform (Code Search, Deep Search, MCP) used by companies like Stripe, Uber and Dropbox. It is backed by a16z, Sequoia and Redpoint and runs as a globally distributed team.