Engineering Manager - Code Plane [M3]

Job Title

Engineering Manager - Code Plane [M3]

About Us

Sourcegraph is a code intelligence platform that provides developers and agents with tools to navigate, understand, and operate on massive, complex codebases.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Code Plane team. As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading a small team of software engineers and providing technical guidance on architecture, code quality, and trade-offs.

Responsibilities

Short-term goals

• Build relationships with direct reports through 1:1s, understand each person's strengths, goals, and current projects, and set a steady cadence for team meetings, planning, and retros.
• Get hands-on with the team's surface area , Batch Changes, MCP, Code Monitors, Code Insights, src CLI , by running them as a user and an agent would, and form a point of view on the most important product and technical bets to make next.
• Meet cross-functional partners in Product, Design, Solutions Engineering, and adjacent engineering teams, and start translating customer feedback into a concrete view of what the team should ship.

Mid-term goals

• Own the team's roadmap and weekly execution: scope and sequence work across multiple product surfaces, set clear expectations for ownership, and unblock the team early and often.
• Ship meaningful work with the team and use the outcomes to refine how the team plans and prioritizes.
• Give direct, useful feedback on performance and career growth, and help reports articulate their own goals for impact and personal development.

Long-term goals

• Be fully accountable for the operational, people, and roadmap aspects of Code Plane, and a strong technical voice on architecture, quality, and product trade-offs.
• Have established a culture and a set of team practices , planning, code review, decision-making, on-call where relevant , that make the team consistently effective.
• Be known across the company as the person who deeply understands what customers and agent ecosystems need from Code Plane, and where Sourcegraph should invest next.

Qualifications

• 3+ years managing a team of professional software engineers, with experience running the full performance cycle: hiring, onboarding, feedback, career growth, and managing out when necessary.
• A strong IC background (IC4-equivalent), with the ability to provide technical guidance on architecture, code quality, and trade-offs,

Required Skills

• Experience leading a team of software engineers
• Strong technical background in software engineering
• Ability to provide technical guidance on architecture, code quality, and trade-offs
• Excellent communication and leadership skills

Preferred Skills

• Experience with code intelligence platforms
• Knowledge of machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies

Salary

• Salary range: Not specified
• Salary minimum: Not specified
• Salary maximum: Not specified
• Salary currency: USD
• Salary period: Yearly