Software Engineer - Developer Infrastructure

Summary

Join Sourcegraph's Developer Infrastructure team and play a crucial role in empowering developers worldwide by building and maintaining tools and systems that enhance development processes. You will contribute to improving build systems, implementing code quality tools, managing CI/CD pipelines, and streamlining development environments. The ideal candidate possesses a solution-oriented mindset, prioritizes high-impact work, and invests in the future while unblocking developers. Strong experience with Bazel and familiarity with other build systems, extensive exposure to various CI systems, and skills in IaC tools are required. Above-average salary, equity, and generous perks and benefits are offered. The role is an IC3 level, and the compensation is determined by your location zone.

Requirements

• Strong experience with Bazel and familiarity with other hermetic build systems like Buck2 or Nix
• Extensive exposure to various CI systems such as Buildkite, GitHub Actions, GitLab Runners, and Jenkins
• Skilled in IaC tools like Terraform (or Pulumi, Helm, Kustomize, Ansible, Salt)
• A tinkerer at heart who constantly seeks to automate processes and improve efficiency. Has a history of developing small, useful tools to solve problems
• Comfortable working with multiple programming languages and always eager to learn new ones

Responsibilities

• Understand the projects your team is working on and their contribution to company goals
• Collaborate with other engineers to identify and address infrastructure challenges
• Contribute to team goals through code contributions and technical discussions
• Collaborate with other engineers to identify and address infrastructure challenges
• Contribute to efforts that make it easier for developers to build, run, and test our products
• Effectively support engineers across Sourcegraph to increase their productivity
• Demonstrate measurable improvements in build times, CI/CD stability, and developer experience
• Lead efforts to find and implement improvements in underserved parts of the stack
• Drive high levels of satisfaction from internal developers
• Lead efforts to scale our developer infrastructure to be more automated and reliable
• Shape our dev infrastructure practices, contributing to company-wide best practices for build and CI/CD workflows

Preferred Qualifications

Go and Typescript familiarity

Benefits

• Above-average salary
• Equity
• Generous perks & benefits
• $170,000 USD (Zone 1)
• $136,000 USD (Zone 2)
• $102,000 USD (Zone 3)
• $68,000 USD (Zone 4)