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

Join Sourcegraph's Developer Infrastructure (Dev Infra) 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 processes smooth, efficient, and reliable. 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

📅 Within one month, you will…

• 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.

📅 Within three months, you will…

• 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.

📅 Within six months, you will…

• 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.

📅 Within one year, you will…

• 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.

As the ideal candidate, you bring a solution-oriented mindset and a passion for developer productivity. You prioritize high-impact work. You invest in the future while unblocking developers in the present.

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

📊 This job is an IC3. You can read more about our job leveling philosophy in our Handbook.

💸 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 IC3 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 pay band for your zone. The start of the IC3 pay band for this zone is $170,000 USD.

📈 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 5.5 hours in total.

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

• [30m] Recruiter Screen
• [15m] Hiring Manager Screen

🧑‍💻 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
• [60m] Coding Exercise
• [60m] Coding Exercise
• [45m] Systems Design
• [45m] Cross-functional / Values
• [15m] Leadership with co-founder

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.