Software Engineer - Platform [IC3]

<div class="content-intro"><h2><span style="color: rgb(243, 78, 63);">Who we are</span></h2> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>If you want to contribute to infrastructure that empowers millions of developers to do their best work - join us.</p></div><h2><span style="color: rgb(243, 78, 63);"><strong>Hours &amp; location</strong></span></h2> <p>🌎 While we hire <a href="https://sourcegraph.notion.site/How-we-engage-talent-outside-of-the-US-218f7193695a46cbb1ef39ef9c1f72d4">almost anywhere</a> 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 EST for at least 20 hours/week.</p> <p><strong>Preferred locations:</strong></p> <ul> <li>EST</li> <li>Europe</li> </ul> <h2><span style="color: rgb(243, 78, 63);"><strong>Why this job is exciting</strong></span></h2> <p>Source code is at the heart of Sourcegraph. We support multiple code hosts and retrieve, store, index, and serve source code - to end users, admins, and other internal services.</p> <p>This role gives you the opportunity to solve complex, challenging, and highly technical problems for our customers, both internally and externally, help unleash the potential and productivity of our Engineering teams, and delight our customers with industry-leading quality software.&nbsp;</p> <p>The Platform team primarily focuses on building a fully managed platform for using Sourcegraph, Sourcegraph Cloud, our SaaS offering. As a member of the Platform team, you will work closely with both external customers and internal stakeholders to meet their needs. You will:</p> <ul> <li>Develop inter-cloud connectivity solutions to support enterprise customers from highly regulated industries to use Sourcegraph Cloud.</li> <li>Build a control plane to orchestrate a fleet of single-tenant Sourcegraph Cloud instances.&nbsp;</li> <li>Expose complex infrastructure as API to support internal customers to iterate faster.</li> <li>Dive into upstream dependencies (e.g., CDK for Terraform, Terraform providers for GCP)&nbsp; to debug and patch non-trivial problems.</li> <li>Be an advocate for building reliable services and work with leadership to help product teams achieve operational excellence.&nbsp;</li> <li>Participate in on-call rotation to uphold our contractual SLA commitments.</li> </ul> <p>📅 Within one month, you will…</p> <ul> <li>Onboard onto the Sourcegraph architecture, tooling, and development workflow.</li> <li>Build a solid understanding of the team’s areas of ownership, technical challenges, and problems the team solves for our customers, and know how all of these align with the top-level company goals.</li> <li>Actively participate in team meetings, sharing ideas and insights to contribute to the overall team goals.</li> <li>Start contributing to the team go…