What You Will Do Daily:
- Contribute to End-to-End Delivery: Collaborate with Product Managers, engineering teams, and research teams to specify and implement sophisticated code analysis and bug detection capabilities in our products. This includes scoping specifications, writing robust code and tests, conducting peer reviews, validating new features, and acting on user feedback post-release.
- Deep Dive into Language Semantics: Regularly explore the intricacies of programming language semantics, advancing our knowledge and enhancing our programming languages analyzers.
- Evolve Analyzer Intelligence: Influence how our analyzers interpret code by developing improved models and innovative new rules, enhancing the precision and intelligence of our code detection capabilities.
- Contribute to Strategic Goals: Engage with various stakeholders to actively contribute to short-term objectives and long-term strategic vision for your squad.
The Experience You Will Need:
- 2+ years of Java development experience.
- Strong engineering skills and deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals.
- Proven grasp of static analysis techniques preferred, as applied to challenging code analysis and bug detection problems.
- Familiarity with Python language and ecosystem is also appreciated, but not required.
- Experience or curiosity about Large Language Models (LLMs), Machine Learning (ML), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is highly valued.
- Ability to learn quickly.
- Open-minded and positive can-do attitude.
- Comfortable dealing with change and complexity.
Why You Will Love It Here:
- Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!).
- Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains.
- We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
- We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
- As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
- We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.
Benefits of Working With Sonar:
- Pension Scheme: 1st Pillar (Unterstützungskasse): Automatic, financed by Sonar, 3% of gross salary.
- Pension Scheme:2nd Pillar (bAV): Voluntary, 15% contribution by Sonar from social security savings.
- Public transport reimbursement of 60% for annual subscription.
- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 28 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
- Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.
- Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
- We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
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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. Our industry-leading platform, SonarQube, integrates code quality and code security analysis directly into the development workflow by automating reviews and providing actionable code intelligence for all code—first-party, AI-generated, third-party open source. \
For organizations, Sonar provides the critical SDLC governance and compliance reporting needed to de-risk AI adoption and manage standards at scale. We empower teams to "vibe, then verify" — innovating at the speed of AI without sacrificing the quality, security, or maintainability of their codebase.
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 and 400K organizations worldwide, including Barclays, MasterCard, and T-Mobile.
Sonar is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with additional offices in Austin, Texas; Annecy, France; Bochum, Germany; London, England; and Singapore. The company is rapidly growing with over 750 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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