Our mission at Sourcegraph is to make it so that everyone can code, not just ~0.1% of the population. We're building the code intelligence platform that powers the world's best code search and the most popular open-source code AI tool. It’s an exciting time to join Sourcegraph—AI has taken over the world, and we aim to automate 99% of the toil in software engineering with our code understanding and code AI tools, leaving the remaining 1% to the irreplicable creative spark from humans.
Our customers range from startups to the Fortune 500, 4/5 FAANG companies, government organizations, Uber, Plaid, and more. We’ve raised $225M at a $2.625B valuation from a16z, Sequoia, Redpoint, Craft and others. We’re making ambitious bets on our future and we’re looking to hire exceptional people to join our team as we make Sourcegraph one of the biggest and most influential companies in the world.
🌎 This role is based in our San Francisco headquarters. However, please note that this position requires extensive travel, typically up to 80% of the time (Monday-Thursday) for on-site customer engagements. When not traveling, you'll work from our SF office.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Sourcegraph, you’ll report directly to our CEO and get to work with the most successful and sophisticated software companies in the world (our customers) and build code AI capabilities that all of their devs love and use in ways far beyond anything else out there. Your code will be informed by what our biggest customers need and will ship to all customers and users, so you must have exacting standards. You’ll be working directly with our biggest customers, so you need to know how to work with eng leaders and devs and pitch and sell and react on the fly. You’ll learn and do more in your first 6 months of being an FDE here than you will anywhere else.
You are a driven engineer who thrives with customers, loves working with cutting-edge technology, and is excited about shaping the future of developer tools:
📊 This job is an IC3-IC5. You can read more about our job leveling philosophy in our Handbook.
We're open to candidates at various experience levels, but this is a highly demanding role that requires a lot of autonomy and high-agency that we typically only see with IC3s or higher. You’ll be interacting with some of the world’s most powerful and influential technical leaders. If using your strong technical skills and ability to communicate to world-class executives to deliver high-impact solutions to previously unsolved problems sounds like a fun challenge then this job may be a great fit for you!
💸 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 M/IC# [example: IC5; M3 etc]. 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 IC3-IC5 pay band for your zone. The start of the IC3-IC5 pay band for each zone is listed below:
IC3: $170,000
IC4: $200,000
IC5: $225,000
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 ___ hours in total. [Note- this should not exceed 5.5 hours!]
👋 Introduction Stage - we have initial conversations to get to know you better…
🧑💻 Team Interview Stage - we then schedule an all-day onsite interview to delve into your experience in more depth and introduce you to members of the team, including cross-functional partners…
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.
We want to ensure Sourcegraph is an environment that suits your working style and empowers you to do your best work, so we are eager to answer any questions that you have about us at any point in the interview process. You can learn more about what it is like to work at Sourcegraph by reading our handbook.
We provide competitive compensation and practical benefits to keep you happy and healthy so that you can do your best work.
Sourcegraph is an equal opportunity workplace; we welcome people from all backgrounds.
Sourcegraph participates in E-Verify for U.S. Employees.
