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Software Engineer - Platform [IC3]

Sourcegraph

Fully Remote
Remote
Worldwide
US hours

Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants

This fully remote full time position at Sourcegraph is open worldwide, so South Africans can apply. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><h2><span style="color: rgb(243, 78, 63);">Who we are</span></h2>
<p>Our mission is to bring clarity and control to the world's most complex codebases. AI is accelerating code creation, but the infrastructure to understand, oversee, and evolve that code hasn't kept pace. Sourcegraph gives engineering organizations full visibility across their systems, precise context for their agents, and the ability to execute coordinated code changes at scale. As agentic development becomes the dominant engineering paradigm, we provide the context layer teams need to take control of their codebase.<br><br>With Code Search, Deep Search, MCP, and Agentic Batch Changes, we deliver on that mission today - giving engineering teams and their AI tools the cross-repo context to navigate massive codebases with confidence, and the ability to make changes across hundreds of repositories at once.<br><br>Companies like Stripe, Reddit, and Leidos rely on Sourcegraph to ship faster and with higher quality. We're backed by a16z, Sequoia, and Redpoint, and proud to operate as a globally distributed team that values high agency, direct communication, and customer love.<br><br>If you want to build the infrastructure that lets every engineering team - and every agent they deploy - operate on their codebase with confidence, join us.</p></div><h2><span style="color: rgb(243, 78, 63);"><strong>Hours &amp; location</strong></span></h2>
<p>🌎 While we hire <a href="https://sourcegraph.notion.site/How-we-engage-talent-outside-of-the-US-218f7193695a46cbb1ef39ef9c1f72d4">almost anywhere</a> in the world, we have a preference for someone to reside in the following locations for this role. However, if you feel qualified, we welcome you to apply regardless of location. No matter what, working hours must overlap with EST for at least 20 hours/week.</p>
<p><strong>Preferred locations:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>EST</li>
<li>Europe</li>
</ul>
<h2><span style="color: rgb(243, 78, 63);"><strong>Why this job is exciting</strong></span></h2>
<p>Source code is at the heart of Sourcegraph. We support multiple code hosts and retrieve, store, index, and serve source code - to end users, admins, and other internal services.</p>
<p>This role gives you the opportunity to solve complex, challenging, and highly technical problems for our customers, both internally and externally, help unleash the potential and productivity of our Engineering teams, and delight our customers with industry-leading quality software.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The Platform team primarily focuses on building a fully managed platform for using Sourcegraph, Sourcegraph Cloud, our SaaS offering. As a member of the Platform team, you will work closely with both external customers and internal stakeholders to meet their needs. You will:</p>
<ul>
<li>Develop inter-cloud connectivity solutions to support enterprise customers from highly regulated industries to use Sourcegraph Cloud.</li>
<li>Build a control plane to orchestrate a fleet of single-tenant Sourcegraph Cloud instances.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Expose complex infrastructure as API to support internal customers to iterate faster.</li>
<li>Dive into upstream dependencies (e.g., CDK for Terraform, Terraform providers for GCP)&nbsp; to debug and patch non-trivial problems.</li>
<li>Be an advocate for building reliable services and work with leadership to help product teams achieve operational excellence.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Participate in on-call rotation to uphold our contractual SLA commitments.</li>
</ul>
<p>📅 Within one month, you will…</p>
<ul>
<li>Onboard onto the Sourcegraph architecture, tooling, and development workflow.</li>
<li>Build a solid understanding of the team’s areas of ownership, technical challenges, and problems the team solves for our customers, and know how all of these align with the top-level company goals.</li>
<li>Actively participate in team meetings, sharing ideas and insights to contribute to the overall team goals.</li>
<li>Start contributing to the team goals and deliverables by shipping new features, debugging issues, and fixing bugs.</li>
</ul>
<p>📅 Within three months, you will…</p>
<ul>
<li>Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the Cloud infrastructure, its underlying technologies, and its integration within the Sourcegraph ecosystem.</li>
<li>Lead initiatives contributing to team goals through both discovery and delivery phases, collaborating directly with product and design partners, other engineering teams, and non-technical stakeholders from different departments.</li>
<li>Contribute to the architectural design and implementation of new features or improvements, actively shaping the future direction of Cloud infrastructure based on customer needs.</li>
<li>Lead initiatives contributing to team goals on the roadmap by going through the entire product development lifecycle discovery, design, implementation, and delivery.</li>
<li>Participate in our on-call rotation.</li>
</ul>
<p>📅 Within six months, y

Tips for South African Applicants

Timezone Advantage

South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.

Salary in Context

Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.

Application Tips

Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.

Load Shedding Preparedness

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About Sourcegraph

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