Our mission at Sourcegraph is to make it so that everyone can code, not just ~0.1% of the population.
Everything is changing in how software gets built, and Sourcegraph builds tools that make it easier at scale. Code Search helps devs explore and understand massive codebases. Amp, our agentic coding tool, dramatically accelerates the time it takes to write new code and tackle complex problems like migrating and transforming code.
We’re trusted by engineering teams at leading companies like Stripe, Uber, and Palo Alto Networks, and with $225M in funding from investors like a16z, Sequoia, and Redpoint, we are building the tools that will define the next era of enterprise software development. We’re a globally distributed team with a culture of high agency, direct communication, and deep love for developers.
If you want to work at the bleeding edge of software and do the most meaningful work of your career, join us.
🌎 We hire almost anywhere in the world and we don’t have a location requirement for this role. However, the expected working hours for this position is 9:00am - 5:00pm EST.
That being said, we do not subscribe to “I do my best work when I work 40 hours a week.” People we hire at Sourcegraph believe that building outstanding things means working very hard — smarter and more hours than the competition.
Why this job is exciting
As part of the Technical Success organization, Support Engineering is at the forefront of the customer experience. Our customers simply wouldn’t be successful, happy, long term customers without the important work this team does! Support Engineering exists to not only resolve technical issues but educate our customers by answering reactive questions, and by importantly identifying improvements we can make to help improve the product. Our customers are developers and we help them throughout their customer journey.
📅 Within one month you will…
- Learn about our product, our value propositions, our customers, our team, and our practices.
- Learn how Sourcegraph is deployed (e.g., Kubernetes, scaling, and more), product configuration and integrations, our code base, and common user needs.
- Meet for an initial chat with the teammates you will work with most
- Start working with customers to troubleshoot and solve reported issues (with lots of support and help from your team).
📅 Within three months you will…
- Work with customers to troubleshoot and solve reported issues
- Contribute to improving our product and handbook documentation
📅 Within six months you will…
- Observe trends causing issues for our customers and suggest remedies (for example, what consistent things happen that we can write tooling for...)
- Suggest (and take responsibility for) improvements for team onboarding and ongoing enablement, improving the customer experience, and/or improving the product
About you
You are curious and compassionate. You are a problem solver - you love the moment where you “figure it out”. You enjoy trying new technologies, breaking them and helping fix them. You want to be part of a technical organization while talking with customers.
- Profound curiosity to figure out why something works the way it does / to learn more
- Working experience with Unix/Linux and/or Bash
- Working experience with Kubernetes containerized solutions
- Working experience with code hosts such as GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket
- Strong understanding of databases, especially SQL
- Compassion to meet our customers (who are all developers themselves) where they are, understand their issues, and be compelled to action
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve difficult problems for customers
- Proficiency in communicating complex technical ideas and decisions to a variety of audiences (both technical and non-technical)
- Some experience using Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI tooling, and how they work
- 3+ years experience in a similar role
Nice to have:
- Foundational knowledge of APIs and/or Git
- Foundational knowledge of cloud computing with AWS, GCP or Azure DevOps
- Experience writing code in Go or another language
- Basic knowledge of or experience with Perforce
- Basic understanding of AI tools and how developers use them
Level
📊 This job is an IC3. 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. 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 location or 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 compensation for this role is $101,600 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
👋 Introduction Stage - we have initial conversations to get to know you better…
- [30 min] Recruiter Screen
- [45 min] 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…
- [Async 1.5 hr] You complete a technical project and we share the results over email.
- [60 min] Technical knowledge/troubleshooting + collaboration/communication skills with an existing member of our Support Engineering team.
🎉 Final Interview Stage - we move you to our final round, where you meet cross-functional partners and gain a better understanding of our business and values holistically…
- [30 min] Values interview
- [15 min] Leadership with a 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.
You can learn more about what it is like to work at Sourcegraph by reading our handbook.
We are an ambitious team who are collectively working hard to build the most influential company in the world. You can read more about our culture, competitive compensation and benefits here.
Sourcegraph is an equal opportunity workplace; we welcome people from all backgrounds.
Sourcegraph participates in E-Verify for U.S. Employees.
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