# Compiler Engineer + SCIP Maintainer [IC4-5] **Company**: Sourcegraph **Location**: Remote **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: The start of the IC5 pay band for each zone is listed below: Zone 2: $192,000 USD Zone 3: $144,000 USD Zone 4: $96,000 USD The start of the IC4 pay band for each zone is listed below: Zone 2: $172,000 USD Zone 3: $129,000 USD Zone 4: $86,000 USD **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sourcegraph91/jobs/6103566004?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_749e2b01-475 ## Description ## Who we are Everything is changing in how software gets built, and Sourcegraph is at the center of that transformation. With Code Search, Deep Search, and MCP, Sourcegraph is the world’s most powerful code intelligence platform that developers and agents rely on to navigate, understand, and operate on massive, complex codebases with speed and confidence. Teams at companies like Stripe, Uber, and Dropbox rely on Sourcegraph to ship faster and with higher quality. We’re backed by a16z, Sequoia, and Redpoint, and proud to operate as a globally distributed team that values high agency, direct communication, and a deep love for developers and their craft. If you want to contribute to infrastructure that empowers millions of developers to do their best work - join us. ## Hours & location While we hire almost anywhere in the world, we have a preference for someone to reside in the following locations for this role. However, if you feel qualified, we welcome you to apply regardless of location. No matter what, working hours must overlap with EST for at least 20 hours/week. Preferred locations: - East Coast USA - Europe ## Why this job is exciting This is a senior to staff-level role that is equal parts compiler engineering and open-source leadership. Your well-honed compiler and language skills will be put to good use growing SCIP into a thriving, self-sustaining, multi-party open standard. As the deeply technical steward of the SCIP community (https://scip-code.org), you'll be shaping governance and the roadmap by owning the protocol with its indexer ecosystem, reviewing and mentoring contributors, setting the bar for quality, driving alignment across organizations like Meta, Uber, Mozilla, and Stripe who already run these indexers in production, and helping to set Sourcegraph's product direction for code intel. ## Responsibilities Within one month, you will… - Get to know your team and its processes, get the SCIP toolchain running end-to-end, and land your first fixes and improvements across the indexer and protocol repos. - Build a clear picture of the health of the SCIP ecosystem - the open issue long tail, the most-relied-upon indexers, where external partners are already invested - and form an early point of view on where the standard should head. - Join the team's on-call support rotation. Within three months, you will… - Own SCIP governance and community direction: triage and prioritization norms, contribution guidelines, and how the project sets and communicates its roadmap. - Set the technical direction for the protocol and its indexers, confidently making calls that require real compiler fluency - language-feature support, AST-modifying tools, symbol-resolution correctness - that become the examples others follow. - Deepen relationships with the partner organizations invested in SCIP, driving external alignment that advances both the standard and Sourcegraph's business. Within six months, you will… - Have grown SCIP into a healthier, more active multi-party open ecosystem - more contributors, more engaged partners, and a higher, more consistent quality bar across indexers - recognized across the industry as the steward who steers it. - Shape Sourcegraph's company-level bets where precise code intelligence intersects AI: how precise data grounds agents, how agents can help stand up and maintain indexers, and how the protocol should evolve to serve both humans and models. - Be the person the company, our customers, and the broader community look to as the definitive authority on SCIP and precise code intelligence, influencing our overall technical direction well beyond the team. ## About you You are a senior to staff-level open-source standard-bearer with credible compiler and language fluency. You're energized by growing a community and a standard, not just shipping your own commits, and you have enough language and compiler depth to be taken seriously by the people who build indexers and compilers for a living. - You have credible compiler and language fluency. You're comfortable enough in the guts of a compiler or language toolchain to make sound calls about the protocol and its indexers and to earn the trust of people who do this for a living. - You operate at staff scope and are comfortable with broad direction. - You're genuinely AI-forward. - You're pragmatic, not perfectionist. - You communicate with authority in the open. - You've led open source, not just contributed to it. ## Nice to haves - Experience creating or leading a developer tool or standard consumed across many organizations (an indexer, language server, build tool, protocol, or similar). - Familiarity with code-intelligence formats and tooling: SCIP, LSIF, LSP, tree-sitter, rust-analyzer, or comparable ecosystems. - Experience partnering with large engineering organizations (e.g., FAANG-scale dev-infra teams) as co-maintainers or standard-setters. - Willingness to learn Go, which our backend is written in. ## Level This job is an IC4-IC5. ## 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. The target compensation for this role is based on the pay bands for your zone. The start of the IC5 pay band for each zone is listed below: - Zone 2: $192,000 USD - Zone 3: $144,000 USD - Zone 4: $96,000 USD The start of the IC4 pay band for each zone is listed below: - Zone 2: $172,000 USD - Zone 3: $129,000 USD - Zone 4: $86,000 USD ## Benefits In addition to our cash compensation, we offer equity and generous perks & benefits. ## Skills ### Required - compiler engineering - language fluency - open-source leadership - SCIP ### Nice to have - experience creating or leading a developer tool or standard - familiarity with code-intelligence formats and tooling - experience partnering with large engineering organizations - willingness to learn Go --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sourcegraph91/jobs/6103566004?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)