Engineering Manager - Code Plane [M3]

Remote•Remote

Remote

Senior

Full Time

28 days ago

💰$144,000 - $192,000

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Requirements

•3+ years managing a team of professional software engineers with full performance cycle experience
•Strong individual contributor background (IC4-equivalent) with ability to provide technical guidance and write high quality code
•Proven experience leading teams building end-user product features, ideally developer tools, agent/AI products, CLIs, or technical product surfaces
•Experience partnering with Product and Design to take features from idea to shipped and incorporate customer feedback
•Customer-facing experience including discovery calls and design partnerships
•Experience shipping products consumed by or built for AI agents (MCP servers, agent SDKs, agentic dev tooling, agent-friendly CLIs)
•Hands-on experience using and reasoning about coding agents with strong opinions on human-agent workflows
•Async-first communication skills and experience in globally distributed remote teams

•Lead a small team of strong individual contributors as a player-coach, spending up to 50% of time contributing as an individual contributor
•Provide hands-on technical guidance as well as people, operational, and roadmap work
•Build relationships with direct reports through 1:1s, understand strengths, goals, and projects, and set cadence for team meetings, planning, and retrospectives
•Get hands-on with team products and form a point of view on product and technical bets
•Meet cross-functional partners and translate customer feedback into product roadmap
•Own the team's roadmap and weekly execution, scope and sequence work, set expectations, and unblock the team
•Ship meaningful work and use outcomes to refine planning and prioritization
•Give direct feedback on performance and career growth, help reports articulate goals
•Be accountable for operational, people, and roadmap aspects, and be a strong technical voice on architecture, quality, and product trade-offs
•Establish team culture and practices for effectiveness
•Be known company-wide for understanding customer and agent ecosystem needs and Sourcegraph investment areas
•Manage performance proactively, cultivate top performers, address underperformance, and raise hiring standards
•Collaborate with leadership to develop ambitious goals and technical execution strategy

•Fluency with Go, TypeScript/React, SvelteKit, GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL, Docker/Kubernetes, and multi-service environments
•Experience with developer tools, code intelligence, code search, or large-scale code transformation/refactoring products
•Experience with monitoring, alerting, or 'signals over code' products such as security scanners, lint platforms, code-quality tools
•Experience designing and shipping CLIs pleasant for both humans and agents