Global Field CTO

CodeRabbit • San Francisco, CA

1d • $300,000 - $365,000

About The Position

CodeRabbit is hiring a Field CTO to represent its technology and product vision to enterprise customers and the broader technical community. The role works directly with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and senior technical teams to understand their architectures and development workflows, explain how CodeRabbit fits into their systems, and build trust in its approach to AI-assisted software development.

Reporting to the Co-Founder, this senior, hands-on role works across Engineering, Product, Sales, Field Engineering, and Customer Success. It begins as an individual-contributor position, with the opportunity to help build a regional Field CTO team as the company grows. The Field CTO leads technical conversations and strategic evaluations, develops demonstrations and reference implementations, supports customer adoption, represents CodeRabbit publicly, and brings customer evidence into product decisions. The role is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and requires travel for customer engagements and industry events.

Requirements

• Strong foundation in software engineering or platform engineering, with experience building and operating production systems and leading engineering teams or major technical initiatives.
• Technical breadth and depth to discuss complex architectures with senior engineers, read and write code, and explain design decisions and trade-offs under scrutiny.
• Experience introducing developer tools or new engineering practices into large organizations, including the workflows, integrations, and organizational changes needed for adoption.
• Record of earning trust with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and other enterprise technical leaders through practical expertise and sound judgment.
• Experience with enterprise-scale systems and the pace of a growing startup; ability to work through ambiguity, take ownership, and create materials or demonstrations for engagements.
• Working knowledge of AI coding assistants or coding agents, software delivery practices, and how teams evaluate generated code for quality and security.
• Clear writing and confident presentation skills, including explaining technical details, answering difficult questions, and making implications useful to audiences ranging from executive sessions to conference attendees.
• Commercial judgment, including connecting technical capabilities to business priorities, defining a credible value case, and distinguishing measured results from assumptions.
• Ability to work from the San Francisco Bay Area and travel for customer engagements and industry events.

Nice To Haves

• Experience as a CTO, Director of Engineering, senior platform leader, or Field CTO with a substantial engineering background.
• Experience bringing developer tools, application security products, or AI capabilities to enterprise engineering teams, including regulated environments.
• A public body of technical work through conference talks, open-source contributions, technical writing, or developer education.
• Experience hiring or mentoring senior technical leaders across regions.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture discussions, working sessions, and executive briefings with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and senior technical teams.
• Represent CodeRabbit’s technology and roadmap, demonstrate capabilities, and explain how its technical direction addresses engineering teams’ needs, distinguishing shipped capabilities from future plans.
• Build demos and reference implementations, inspect development workflows, and work through integration and deployment trade-offs.
• Apply practical expertise across code review, testing, CI/CD, platform engineering, and application security.
• Partner with Sales, Field Engineering, and Customer Success to define evaluation success criteria, resolve technical barriers, and support customers from evaluation through sustained use.
• Connect business value assessments to measurable engineering outcomes.
• Represent CodeRabbit at conferences, engineering leadership forums, and customer events; publish technical perspectives and practical guidance.
• Share recurring patterns, technical constraints, and adoption barriers with Product and Engineering to inform product development and launches.
• Mentor customer-facing colleagues, develop reusable technical materials, and help shape the future regional Field CTO function.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Equity
• Benefits
• Professional development opportunities
• Opportunity to shape a global technical leadership function, work directly with product and engineering teams, and influence how enterprises adopt AI in software development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed