Engineering Manager - Infrastructure [M3]

Location

While we hire almost anywhere in the world, we require someone to reside in San Francisco for this role.

Why this job is exciting

Join Sourcegraph's Infrastructure team and play a crucial role in empowering developers worldwide. We're responsible for building and maintaining the tools and systems that make Sourcegraph's development and release processes smooth, efficient, and reliable. Our team focuses on two key areas:

Developer Infrastructure (Dev Infra): We create and optimize tools and workflows that enhance productivity for Sourcegraph's engineering teams. This includes improving build systems, implementing code quality tools, managing CI/CD pipelines, and streamlining development environments.

Release Management: We ensure Sourcegraph's products are deployed reliably and efficiently. This involves improving release tooling and automation, coordinating releases, and continuously improving our deployment processes for both cloud and self-hosted customers.

As the Engineering Manager for the Infrastructure team, you will lead the Dev Infra and Release teams, driving operational excellence, developer productivity, and release management. You will combine technical expertise with a product-focused approach, ensuring your teams deliver scalable solutions as Sourcegraph grows.

Within one month, you will…

• Start building a trusting relationship with your direct reports, peers, and stakeholders.
• Understand the what, why, and how of the projects that your teams are working on, how those projects contribute to our company goals, as well as current status, risks, and mitigations.

Within three months, you will…

• Guide the Dev Infra and Release teams forward in reducing the time and toil from code to deployment and improving the observability of the testing/deployment environments and pipelines.

Within six months, you will…

• Guide the team in finding and implementing improvements in underserved parts of the stack.
• Reduce the complexity and toil of our releases and deployments.
• Foster the growth of your reports.

Within one year, you will…

• Scale developer infrastructure, release tooling, and deployment to be more automated and reliable.
• Build a strong team brand and drive high levels of satisfaction from internal developers, our technical success team, and customer instance administrators.

About you

As the ideal candidate, you lead with a product mindset, delivering solutions that drive platform value. Even when there is no formal product owner, you prioritize high-impact work while investing in core infrastructure.

DevEx and SRE expertise: You have a strong background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Developer Experience (DevEx), with hands-on experience in developer productivity, CI/CD pipelines, and release management for both Cloud services and on-prem customers. You are well-versed in technologies like Bazel and Kubernetes. You know Go and are familiar with TypeScript and the client ecosystem.

System and leadership balance: You maintain a broad view of the system, working with product teams to understand needs while guiding platform development. You effectively balance leadership responsibilities with hands-on work, adapting to immediate needs and long-term goals.

Startup mindset: You adjust your teams’ strategies to align with the company’s needs, knowing when to prioritize speed and when to focus on solving deeper, scalable challenges.

• Experience with Kubernetes is a requirement. Experience with Bazel, Buildkite, and CI systems are desirable, along with building and deploying Go-based microservice architectures. Experience with TypeScript clients is a plus, as is familiarity with large mono-repo code bases.
• As the ideal candidate, you will have deep familiarity with the Google SRE operations model, as well as professional experience with the subjects covered in the Google SRE book . Experience with alternative ops models, such as those employed by Amazon, Netflix, and other high-velocity companies with large scale and deep technical stacks, is also desirable.
• Some familiarity with Google Cloud Platform is a must. AWS and/or Azure experience are bonuses.

Nice to haves:

• Security/secops experience is a bonus but not required.

Level

This job is an M3. You can read more about our job leveling philosophy in our Handbook.

Compensation

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 M3 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 M3 pay band for your zone. The start of the M3 pay band for this zone is $225,000 USD base.

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 .

Interview process

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 4.25 hours in total.

Introduction Stage - we have initial conversations to get to know you better…

• (30m) Recruiter Screen
• (15m) Hiring Manager Intro

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…

• (60m) Technical Screen / Resume Deep Dive
• (45m) Peer Interview
• (45m) Technical Screen
• (60m) Cross-functional Team Collaboration Interview / Values Interview
• (15-30m) Leadership with co-founder
• We check references and conduct your background check.

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.