Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Sourcegraph, a company transforming software development with AI, as an Engineering Manager for the Agents & Search Platform teams. Lead two teams leveraging AI to understand and improve code, focusing on customer-facing AI Agents and the core search platform. You will be at the forefront of high-impact work, shaping the future of semantic code search and the agent-powered developer experience. This role requires deep experience in AI/ML platforms, search infrastructure, or related fields, and leadership of engineering organizations. The position is based in San Francisco and offers above-average salary, equity, and generous perks and benefits. Sourcegraph values a hard-working culture and offers a competitive compensation package.

Requirements

• You are a seasoned engineering leader who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and product, and who knows how to guide a team through ambiguity, innovation, and iteration
• You believe deeply in building with empathy—for developers, for your team, and for the broader mission
• You don’t just support execution—you inspire it
• You have deep experience in one or more of the following areas: AI/ML platforms, search infrastructure, semantic search, information retrieval, or developer tools
• You have led engineering organizations of ~9+ people and are comfortable managing engineers directly while also thinking systemically about scaling the team
• You have experience leading teams that work on both user-facing product features and backend platforms or APIs
• You’re energized by messy, ambiguous problems and love bringing structure to them
• You are able to work onsite in our office in San Francisco

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with your team, understanding their strengths, challenges, and how they collaborate
• Deeply understand the current technical architecture of our Agents platform and Search stack, including Zoekt, LLM integrations, code context APIs, and our semantic ranking initiatives
• Establish clear team rituals and alignment with product and design partners
• Identify any gaps or inefficiencies in execution and propose a 30/60/90-day plan for improvement
• Drive the development and successful iteration of at least one customer-facing AI Agent, ensuring it delivers real value and delight to users
• Support the team in shipping improvements to our search infrastructure that enable code understanding that goes beyond basic search
• Develop a shared roadmap that brings together the short-term needs of product-focused Agent work with the long-term goals of building a scalable, extensible platform
• Align the Agents and Search Platform teams with a cohesive technical and strategic vision, helping the team think like platform builders while shipping delightful user-facing products
• Support team members in setting and achieving ambitious career goals
• Partner with leadership to define the long-term vision for our AI Agents and next-generation code search
• Increase cross-team collaboration, making it easier for other teams to build on top of our Agents and Search APIs
• Build out a repeatable process for launching and maintaining AI Agents that are robust, reusable, and beloved by users
• Improve the performance, accuracy, and semantic intelligence of our search platform in measurable ways
• Be known across the org as a key driver of our AI and search strategy and a leader others love working with

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with or contributions to open source search tools like Zoekt or similar
• Familiarity with LLMs, prompt engineering, or agent-based architectures
• A background in semantic search, embeddings, or code intelligence systems
• Previous experience launching new developer-facing products from 0 to 1

Benefits

• Above-average salary
• Equity
• Generous perks & benefits