Why this job is exciting
The Code Intelligence team is building compiler-accurate cross-repository IDE level navigation in multiple languages, with an in-house focus on the JVM/C++/.NET/JS/Go/Ruby/Python/Rust ecosystems. Our go to definition and find references functionality helps engineers understand and navigate their code and dependencies as quickly as possible. Teams and product verticals within Sourcegraph are able to use Code Intelligence data to enhance or provide a deep technical moat to their offerings. Through this foundation many exciting avenues and innovations are spawned (dependency graph, global monorepo, security use cases, IDE navigation without local compilation).
Our vision is to expand and support 40+ programming languages and build the global graph of open source code. We believe that we’re only just scratching the surface of what is possible within Code Intelligence.
As a software engineer, you'll iterate on our customer experience, improve our language specific tooling and be an influential part of helping us build the global graph of code.
Join us to bring IDE-like navigation to 40+ programming languages. As part of this team, you’ll have the opportunity to specialize as we grow. From creating intuitive language specific tooling through to working on low level compiler plugins, scaling our API with terabytes of data and launching innovative features.
Within one month, you will…
- Be actively contributing to one of our supported language indexers.
- Work closely with your teammates to understand the technical rationale behind our indexing format SCIP.
Within three months, you will…
- Directly be owning the development or maintenance of a SCIP language indexer. Collaborate with engineers on different teams, and sometimes with our customers, to define the ideal APIs needed to deliver on the desired user experience.
- Actively shape the direction and participate in the planning of the features we're going to build, e.g. by writing and reviewing PR-FAQs.
Within six months, you will…
- Driving significant features such as cross-language precise navigation, dependency graph analysis or auto-inference of how to build and compile customer projects automatically.
- Evangelize and iterate on the SCIP protocol, our docs and community contributions to drive SCIP forward as a global standard.
- Make a significant impact by being a key contributor and help us improve our existing engineering practices.
- Feel confident working more autonomously, leaning into our values, especially customer-driven, teamwork and high agency.
About you
You are an experienced and visionary customer-driven software engineer who works from a place of compassion and curiosity. You find joy in solving complex problems in the code intelligence space. You are strongly aligned with our values, inspired by our mission to make it so that everyone can code, and motivated to do your best work at Sourcegraph.
Qualifications:
- Strong experience developing and maintaining language tooling, such as compilers, build tools, static/semantic analysis or language servers.
- Deep knowledge in at least one language ecosystem of JVM/.NET or C++.
- Ability to work effectively across multiple languages with and without prior experience.
- You can communicate clearly and empathetically, especially in writing and documentation.
- You have experience creating high quality software balanced with a pragmatic understanding of how to make appropriate tradeoffs.
- You are customer-oriented and a relationship builder.
- You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.