Software Engineer - Release [IC2]

Responsibilities

Within one month, you will…

• Begin building relationships with cross-functional teams, including the Cody development team and other stakeholders.
• Dive into the codebase of Cody and Code Intelligence platform, gaining a deep understanding of the existing code, architecture, and dependencies.

Within three months, you will…

• Implement improvements that result in a measurable reduction in the time it takes to release new versions of Cody and the Code Intelligence platform while higher-level insights on architecture, scalability, and customer focus.
• Establish strong working relationships with Security teams, ensuring that the release process incorporates necessary security measures.
• Actively participate in code reviews and discussions to contribute higher-level insights on architecture, scalability, and customer focus.

Within six months, you will…

• Contribute to the development of a robust and scalable infrastructure for monitoring Cody's quality, performance, and user experience.
• Implement proactive alerting and monitoring systems to detect issues before they impact customers.

Within one year, you will…

• Successfully evolve the release process into a mature platform, enabling teams across Sourcegraph to manage their releases independently.
• Proactively propose additions and changes to the team's roadmap, aligning it with the broader goals of Sourcegraph.

About you

• You’re a software engineer first, but you have a passion for working on the boundaries between software and the underlying infrastructure. You might have some past experience as an SRE, developing tooling for other developers, or jumping between the two.
• You’re interested in distributed systems and have experience debugging a few of the challenges that come along with them.
• You understand the software lifecycle, from design, to coding, to docs, as well as the maintenance lifecycle over time.
• You don't write code for the sake of it, but to provide value to our customers by solving problems.
• You value integrity and teamwork. Your strong sense of empathy helps you understand your peers' challenges and you sharply understand how to balance solving current and future problems, carving a path to implement your vision. You’re able to contribute feedback to your teammates as well as across team boundaries when needed.
• You understand your role in the company and how you contribute to its success or failures. You have a strong sense of ownership and a healthy sense of urgency. You  understand that this is your company now.
• Your sense of ownership extends to the software that you ship to your customers. You understand that your code is likely the first impression many customers have of your company, and you often pause to consider the customer experience during development.
• You do work you are proud of and your work is respected by your peers as well as the broader community.

Skills

• You're proficient at writing at least one language and likely experienced in other languages as well.
• You’ve done some frontend development work at some point in your career.
• You've had experience working with delivery and build pipelines of various sizes.
• You have working knowledge of Kubernetes, perhaps even including working and developing with Kubernetes APIs and internals such as CRDs and controllers.