Sourcegraph

What is Sourcegraph?

Sourcegraph is a developer-tools company built around universal code search and code intelligence. Its platform lets engineering teams search, understand, cross-reference, and safely change code across massive, multi-repository codebases, the kind of "where is this used, and what breaks if I change it" problem that gets very hard at scale. This has become even more important as AI writes and searches far more code than before, and Sourcegraph positions itself as the code-understanding layer for large codebases in that world. It was founded in 2013 by Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu and is headquartered in San Francisco. It employs roughly 147 people and has raised about $223 million in funding; a $125 million Series D in 2021, led by Insight Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, valued the company at $2.6 billion. A major recent change is worth knowing: Sourcegraph's AI coding effort (its Cody assistant, and later the Amp agent) was spun out in December 2025 into a separate company, Amp Inc. Co-founders Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu left to run Amp and remain on Sourcegraph's board, while Dan Adler became CEO of Sourcegraph, which is now focused purely on code search and understanding. Shared investors (Craft, Redpoint, Sequoia, Goldcrest, and a16z) sit on both companies' boards.

Mission & values

Make it so everyone can code, by helping developers search, understand, and change code across huge codebases with confidence.

Qualifications

Sourcegraph hires the deeply technical roles a developer-tools company needs. On the engineering side: software engineers across backend, frontend, full-stack, distributed systems, search, and the large-scale infrastructure needed to index and query enormous codebases, plus site reliability and security engineering. It also hires product management and design, and developer-facing roles like developer relations/advocacy, technical writing, and solutions/support engineering, since its users are engineers. On the go-to-market side it hires enterprise sales, sales engineering, and customer success (its customers are large engineering organizations), alongside marketing, finance, legal, and people. Application flow lives at sourcegraph.com/jobs. On location, be aware of the history: Sourcegraph was all-remote for years but shifted toward more in-person and hub-based work in 2024, so it is not simply fully remote today, some roles may be remote while others expect in-person time, and each posting states the location and remote terms plus any work-authorization requirements. Strong systems, search, or developer-tools experience is a strong signal for engineering roles.

Leadership

Hiring process

1. 1

   Apply at sourcegraph.com/jobs

   Browse engineering, search/infrastructure, product, design, developer relations, and go-to-market roles and submit through the Sourcegraph careers site. Each posting states location and remote terms.

2. 2

   Recruiter screen

   Confirms role fit, level, location and work authorization, remote vs in-person expectations, and pay.

   About 7 days

3. 3

   Technical or role-specific interview

   Engineering: coding and system design, often with search, distributed-systems, or developer-tools depth. Product/design: portfolio and case. Go-to-market: a scenario for a developer-led product.

   About 10 days

4. 4

   Team interviews

   Cross-functional interviews with the team on depth, collaboration, and fit.

   About 10 days

5. 5

   Offer

   Offer with base plus equity (and OTE for sales roles), aligned to role and location.

   About 7 days

Funding

Awards & recognition

• Raised a $125M Series D at a $2.6B valuation · 2021

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• Spun out its AI coding agent (Amp) into a separate company · 2025

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Company information

• Industry: Developer Tools / Code Search & Intelligence
• Location: San Francisco, CA, USA (distributed; shifted toward in-person)
• Founded: 2013
• Employees: 147
• Website: sourcegraph.com ↗
• LinkedIn: Company page ↗

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