Forward Deployed Engineer [IC1-IC5]

Sourcegraph • San Francisco, CA

301d • $136,000 - $240,000

About The Position

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Sourcegraph, you’ll report directly to our CEO and get to work with the most successful and sophisticated software companies in the world (our customers) and build code AI capabilities that all of their devs love and use in ways far beyond anything else out there. Your code will be informed by what our biggest customers need and will ship to all customers and users, so you must have exacting standards. You’ll be working directly with our biggest customers, so you need to know how to work with eng leaders and devs and pitch and sell and react on the fly. You’ll learn and do more in your first 6 months of being an FDE here than you will anywhere else.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering background with hands-on coding experience.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think on your feet.
• Strong communication skills, both technical and non-technical.
• Experience with developer tools, code search, and AI-assisted coding.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, changing environments.
• Comfortable balancing technical work with relationship building and strategic thinking.
• Eager to learn and adapt to diverse technologies and business environments.
• Excited about the prospect of frequent travel and intense on-site engagements.

Responsibilities

• Get yourself intimately familiar with our entire tech stack and product feature set.
• Shadow experienced team members FDE, Engineering, and Technical Success to learn about customer engagements.
• Learn how to pitch our product and familiarize yourself with our go-to-market motion to understand how FDEs fit into the larger customer success strategy.
• Get deployed to your first customer to lead an engagement from end-to-end.
• Work with our largest and most sophisticated customers, building new capabilities and improving existing capabilities in our product.
• Identify and capitalize on new opportunities across all of our customers.
• Contribute to the refinement and scaling of the FDE program based on your experiences.
• Become a go-to expert for complex customer integrations and technical challenges.
• Grow our customers' love for Sourcegraph.

Benefits

• Above-average salary based on IC1-IC5 pay band.
• Equity options.
• Generous perks & benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level