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Principal C# Backend Engineer
•Goodsservices· 21h
💻 Engineering⏰ Full-time🎯 Lead / Principal🇺🇸 USA
21h ago
Sourcegraph91·7 days ago
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.
🌎 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 CEST for at least 20 hours/week.
Preferred locations:
The Code Plane team owns the Sourcegraph products that help developers - and the agents working on their behalf - take action on code, at scale, across the world's largest codebases. Think “data plane” and “control plane” for enterprise code: the surfaces where intent becomes code changes across hundreds (or more!) of repositories.
This is a team that builds products that use AI and products for AI. The roadmap, the architecture, and the day-to-day technical decisions all hinge on a solid experience with and a clear-eyed view of what AI models and agents are good at, where they fail, and how to design products around them. A strong handle on and opinion of AI, formed from real-world, hands-on use, not just observation, is a hard requirement for this role. If you're excited to ship for the AI agent ecosystem rather than simply watch from the sidelines, you'll find a lot to love here.
We're hiring you to be the technical leader around whom this team rallies. Our product surfaces are evolving drastically as agents reshape how software is built, and we are adjusting our engineering teams to match. It is an exciting time, and a rare chance to be a strong leader shaping dev tools for the agentic age of coding. Code Plane owns high-stakes, fast-moving products at the center of that shift and needs a tech lead who will set technical and product direction, drive the roadmap from issue to shipped, and keep the team unblocked and moving. You'll work directly with customers, design partners, and cross-functional partners to translate real customer needs into a concrete plan the team can build on, own, and follow.
The team's surface areas include:
The features your team ships are used directly by developers and by agents working on their behalf, and you'll partner closely with Product, Design, Customer Engineering, and adjacent engineering teams to turn customer pain into shipped product.
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You are a technical leader and software engineer whom people want to follow. You set technical direction, make the hard architecture and tradeoff calls, and keep the team unblocked and moving. You think in terms of customers and outcomes, not tickets. You're at home translating fuzzy product input into a clear roadmap, scoping with Product and Design, and making calls about what to cut so the team can ship. You’re tackling our hardest technical problems hands-on, and also guiding your team to grow.
You have a point of view on coding agents - what they're good at, where they fail, and how products can make them dramatically more useful - and you're excited to ship for that ecosystem.
You actively contribute to a collaborative, respectful, async-first culture. You communicate thoughtfully and proactively, you keep stakeholders informed without being asked, and you're not afraid to push back — or to change your mind when someone has a better idea.
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📊 This job is an IC5. You can read more about our job leveling philosophy in our Handbook.
💸 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. As an open and transparent company that values competitive compensation, our compensation ranges are visible to every single Sourcegraph teammate.
Your salary is determined by your pay band for the IC5 job level. For determining pay bands, we use a number of market and data-driven salary sources, along with your location zone, and target the high-end of the range to ensure we’re always paying above market regardless of where you live in the world. Both U.S. and international locations are divided into one of four zones, determined by the cost of labor index for each area. The salary for a successful candidate will be based on level, job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and location zone. Please note that the salaries below may be adjusted in the future.
💰 The target compensation for this role is based on the IC5 pay band for your zone. The start of the IC5 pay band for each zone is listed below:
Please speak with a recruiter for additional information regarding zone locations.
📈 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.
Below is the interview process you can expect for this role (you can read more about the types of interviews in our Handbook). It may look like a lot of steps, but rest assured that we move quickly and the steps are designed to help you get the information needed to determine if we’re the right fit for you… Interviewing is a two-way street, after all!
We expect the interview process to take 4.75 hours in total.
👋 Introduction Stage - we have initial conversations to get to know you better…
🧑💻 Team Interview Stage - we then delve into your experience in more depth and introduce you to members of the team, including cross-functional partners…
🎉 Final Interview Stage - we move you to our final round, where you gain a better understanding of our business and values holistically…
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.