# Tech Lead - Code Plane [IC5] at Sourcegraph

- Company: Sourcegraph
- What the company does: Give humans and agents complete context to understand, oversee, and evolve the world. Backed by Insight, Sequoia and a16z.
- Company website: https://about.sourcegraph.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-17
- Apply by: 2026-11-01
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sourcegraph91/jobs/6194803004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sourcegraph-tech-lead-code-plane-ic5/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Fluency across our stack, backend and frontend: Go, TypeScript, SvelteKit and React, GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL, and Docker and Kubernetes in a multi-service environment
- A strong technical background, with the ability to provide technical guidance on architecture, code quality, and trade-offs
- Proven experience on teams that build end-user product features — ideally developer tools, agent/AI products, CLIs, or other technical product surfaces
- Experience partnering closely with Product and Design to take features from idea to shipped, and incorporating customer feedback into the roadmap
- You have built something that agents or other programs call, not just something you used an agent to build. MCP servers, agent SDKs, tool surfaces, harnesses, or a CLI designed for non-human callers

Tags: Engineering