Sonar enables organizations to ship agentic code with confidence. Code creation is abundant, but confidence is scarce. Our core platform, SonarQube, verifies over 750 billion lines of code every day, delivering agentic verification and governance for all code. Trusted by more than 7 million developers and 75% of the Fortune 100, including teams at Nvidia, ServiceNow, Booking.com, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company, Sonar enables organizations to reduce outages, improve security, and lower the cost and risk of agentic software development.
Founded in Geneva and now headquartered in Austin, Texas, Sonar has a global team working across offices and hubs, including Silicon Valley, London, Bochum, Barcelona, Singapore, Tokyo, and the Washington, D.C. area. At Sonar, we’re enabling enterprises to build agentic software factories that can move quickly while maintaining the control, consistency and evidence required to ship with confidence.
What you will do
Cloud platform engineering through code: Design and evolve secure, reliable AWS foundations using reusable infrastructure-as-code, automated deployment pipelines, and tested change controls.
Automation and self-service: Develop pragmatic tooling, integrations, and glue code that solve operational problems for Systems Engineering and make internal customers more self-sufficient.
AI-enabled platform engineering: Use and develop AI-enabled tooling and automation to improve infrastructure delivery, operational triage, knowledge retrieval, and self-service, with appropriate human review, security, and governance.
Reliability and observability: Define and improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, SLIs/SLOs, capacity planning, and service-health reporting for Systems Engineering services.
Security engineering: Design, architect, implement, and operate secure cloud controls — including least-privilege access, policy-as-code, secrets management, auditability, configuration baselines, and automated evidence collection — in partnership with Information Security.
Incident response: Participate in the Systems Engineering on-call and escalation model for services and tools owned by Systems Engineering. Lead or contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis, and preventative follow-up work.
Resilience engineering: Lead or facilitate FMEAs and recovery exercises for critical cloud services and material changes; translate findings into funded, owned engineering actions.
Technical leadership: Produce lightweight designs, establish standards, review complex changes, mentor peers, and influence service-owning teams to adopt reliable platform patterns.
Collaboration: Work closely with Systems Engineering, S/NOC, Information Security, IT Ops, Product Engineering, and external providers to define clean service boundaries and effective escalation paths.
Experience and qualifications
8+ years of hands-on experience in cloud, platform, site reliability, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering in a SaaS, cloud-native, or complex enterprise environment.
Strong AWS experience, including networking, IAM, DNS, logging/monitoring, compute, storage, security controls, and multi-account or multi-environment design.
Deep infrastructure-as-code experience with AWS CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent, including reusable modules, automated testing, code review, and CI/CD delivery.
Strong software engineering and automation skills in at least one of Python, TypeScript, Go, Bash, or a comparable language with a heavy emphasis on AI skillsets.
Experience designing production-grade observability: metrics, logs, traces, actionable alerting, dashboards, and operational runbooks.
Demonstrated ability to automate operational controls and remove manual work while preserving appropriate approvals, auditability, and safety.
Experience with incident response, post-incident engineering, root-cause analysis, and translating lessons into measurable reliability improvements.
Sound knowledge of cloud security principles: identity and access management, least privilege, encryption, secrets handling, secure networking, vulnerability management, and logging.
Excellent written and verbal English communication; able to explain technical decisions, risks, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
We're intentional about this. We believe the best teams are built in the room together. Three anchor days — Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays — create the collaboration rhythm that makes a hub office worth having.
Candidates need to be genuinely based in the location the role is posted — if that's not where you are today, we're happy to support relocation for the right person.
We value diversity, equity, and inclusion
At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
If you need any accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected].
All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.
Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in cloud, platform, site reliability, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering
- Strong AWS experience including networking, IAM, DNS, logging and monitoring, compute, storage, security controls, and multi-account or multi-environment design
- Deep infrastructure-as-code experience with AWS CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent
- Experience with reusable infrastructure modules, automated testing, code review, and CI/CD delivery
- Strong software engineering and automation skills in Python, TypeScript, Go, Bash, or a comparable language
- Strong emphasis on AI skillsets
- Experience designing production-grade observability, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks
- Experience automating operational controls while preserving approvals, auditability, and safety
- Experience with incident response, post-incident engineering, root-cause analysis, and reliability improvements
- Knowledge of cloud security principles, including IAM, least privilege, encryption, secrets handling, secure networking, vulnerability management, and logging
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
What the Team is Saying
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Sonar Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes 90% employer-paid premiums for U.S. employees (60% for dependents), fully paid life and disability insurance, and 100% telemedicine for eligible employees. This breadth positions health protection as a clear standout in the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is described as 25 PTO days in the U.S. with additional days based on seniority or circumstances, while other sources cite roughly 18–23 days in practice. Overall, the vacation offering is portrayed as generous relative to common tech norms.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits feature a 401(k) match up to 4% of gross salary in the U.S., with some postings noting day-one vesting. This provides a solid baseline for long-term savings support.
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What We Do
Sonar provides the essential verification layer for the AI-driven development era, ensuring all code—whether human-written or AI-generated—is code you can trust. Today, AI coding tools are generating explosive volumes of code. This has created an "engineering productivity paradox" : faster code writing doesn't automatically lead to faster, safer software delivery. The new bottleneck is verification. Sonar solves this. Integrating code quality and code security into a single platform (SonarQube), Sonar is the foundation for high performance software engineering, analyzing over 750 billion lines of code daily to ensure applications are secure, reliable, and maintainable. As an independent verification platform, Sonar enables organizations to securely develop at the speed of AI. We are driven by a deep belief in our people, a commitment to excellence, and an unwavering dedication to delivery. We operate as a united group where our collective success is the sum of each individual's contributions. Our company culture is driven by the values of CODE: Committed, Obsessed, Deliberate & Effective. This mindset reflects our culture of creativity, collaboration, and pride in the work we do. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 35 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by 7M+ developers worldwide, including ServiceNow, Booking.com, Deutsche Bank, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company. Sonar is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with additional offices in Austin, Texas; Bochum, Germany; London, Singapore, and Tokyo. The company is rapidly growing with over 800 employees! Join us in our mission to solve the trillion-dollar challenge of bad code!
Why Work With Us
We are a product-first company, with a people-first culture. Every employee has the opportunity to grow and learn. We promote from within, provide regular feedback and professional development opportunities, value the right to fail along with respect and kindness and work with team members to achieve their full potential.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
At Sonar, we require employees to come into the office 3 days/week.
