Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development. As the leader in AI code verification and governance, we solve a critical problem: ensuring that software generated by AI-assisted developers or autonomous agents is reliable, secure, and maintainable.
Integrating seamlessly with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and Devin, we help over 75% of the Fortune 100 build trusted, reliable, compliant software. Customers who use Sonar are 44% less likely to report an outage due to AI-generated code.
We believe code verification is the critical missing link in the Agent-Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC). Industry giants like Nvidia, ServiceNow, Booking.com, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company count on us to provide independent, explainable, consistent review and governance of their AI-generated code via products like:
- SonarQube: The world’s leading AI code review and verification platform.
- SonarQube Foundation Agent: Currently topping the leaderboards for agentic software repair.
- SonarSweep & Sonar Context Augmentation: Providing the enterprise-grade context and constraints agents need to be truly effective.
Our team operates across global hubs in Austin, Bochum, Dubai, Geneva, London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington D.C. We move with a mindset we call CODE:
- Committed to our customers and community.
- Obsessed with quality.
- Deliberate in our decisions.
- Effective as one team.
With over $400M in revenue and profitable, fast-paced growth, we are building the backbone of the AI software revolution. If you’re hungry to have an impact, want to build at a fast pace, and ready to work at the forefront of AI, we want to hear from you.
What You'll do Daily:
Technical Solution Selling: Proactively removing technical blockers (Security, Architecture, Legal) using standardized, repeatable processes to move the sales process forward, whether the deal is $50K or $500K.
Coaching in the Field: Riding along on your team's calls and giving feedback specific enough to act on. Not "that went well," but "you spent nine minutes on features the platform lead never asked about." Weekly 1:1s, individual development plans, and honest conversations about where people stand.
Hiring and Bar-Setting: Owning your requisitions end to end, from screening through technical interview and close. You define what a Sonar SE looks like and you hold that bar, including when the pipeline is thin and the pressure is on to settle.
Team Goal Attainment: Knowing where every meaningful opportunity in your team's portfolio stands, where it's stuck, and what you're doing about it. Forecast accuracy and pipeline hygiene are yours.
SE-AE Partnership at Scale: Building the working relationships between your SEs and their AE counterparts and making sure that engagement is visible in Salesforce. If the team is doing the work but not logging it, that's a coaching problem and it's yours to solve.
Value Engineering: Roleplaying as a peer to Lead Engineers and DevOps Directors to articulate the technical risk of shipping AI-generated code without verification, and teaching your team to run that same conversation.
Bionic SE Workflows: Leveraging AI to automate the creation of customer-facing content, allowing you to handle a high volume of deals at pace, then turning what works into something the whole team uses.
Experience and Qualificiations:
The "Sales-First" Mindset: You are driven by win rates and sales velocity; you view a long, un-qualified technical evaluation as a failure, not a project.
Developer DNA: Proven background as a Software Developer or extensive experience in the Developer Tools (DevTools) space; you can speak "engineer-to-engineer" with credibility, and your team will respect you for it.
High-Scale Muscle Memory: Experience in a high-velocity environment where you have personally managed a double-digit load of active, concurrent technical evaluations, plus exposure to larger enterprise cycles.
Coaching Instinct, With or Without the Title: You have formally managed SEs, or you have been the person on the team everyone else learns from. We care more about evidence that people got better because of you than about the size of your last org.
Technical "Slickness": Professional polish and executive presence; the ability to translate complex code-level issues into business-level ROI for non-technical stakeholders.
Operational Discipline: A self-driven attitude with a focus on "Standardization over Customization" to keep the revenue engine moving at speed, and comfort making decisions from data rather than gut feel.
AI Power User: You actively use AI to re-engineer your technical sales workflow, and you teach it. If it can be automated or prompted, you've already done it.
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
- Proven background as a software developer or extensive experience in the developer tools space
- Experience personally managing a double-digit load of concurrent technical evaluations
- Exposure to larger enterprise sales cycles
- Formal experience managing Solutions Engineers or demonstrated coaching impact without a formal management title
- Ability to communicate credibly with engineers and translate complex technical issues into business-level ROI
- Professional polish and executive presence
- Operational discipline and comfort making data-driven decisions
- Active use of AI to improve technical sales workflows and ability to teach those practices
- Sales-first mindset focused on win rates and sales velocity
- Ability to work in the posted location with an in-office schedule on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays
What the Team is Saying
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Sonar Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is employer-paid at 90% for employees (60% for dependents) with company-paid life and disability insurance, telemedicine, EAP, and HSA/FSA options. This breadth and employer cost share are presented as strong for the U.S. tech market.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes 25 PTO days in the U.S., with additional days tied to seniority or circumstances. This allowance is described as generous for the U.S. market.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave in the U.S. offers up to 12 weeks paid for primary caregivers and 1 week for secondary caregivers, plus a return-to-work program and an onsite mother’s room. These provisions extend support for families beyond core medical coverage.
Sonar Insights
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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Sonar Offices
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.
