Software Engineer - Platform [IC3]

You bring a product mindset in balancing architectural flexibility and philosophy with meeting immediate customer demand.

You balance maintaining and designing high-impact systems with a pragmatic understanding of how to make appropriate tradeoffs (e.g., cut scope, low-tech vs.

custom complex solutions) to ship quickly and iterate when necessary.

Knowledge in one of the public cloud platform providers (GCP, AWS, Azure)

Experience with Terraform (or similar IaC solutions) and Kubernetes to build tooling and automation.

Skilled at debugging distributed systems, followed by designing and implementing solutions to those problems.

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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.

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

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almost anywhere