Who is Sonar?
Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development. As the leader in AI code review and verification, 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.
Position description
As a Senior Associate, Corporate Development at Sonar, you will play a foundational role in shaping the company's growth strategy across M&A, strategic investments, and build/partner/buy decisions. Reporting to the VP, Corporate Development, you will be the primary engine for outbound sourcing, market mapping, and triage of M&A opportunities across the AI coding, developer tools, application security, and broader software development lifecycle (SDLC) ecosystem.
You will own day-to-day pipeline management and serve as the connective tissue between Sonar's executive leadership, Product, Engineering, Finance, and Legal teams as we evaluate M&A opportunities. From first outreach through diligence and integration planning, you will help ensure Sonar evaluates the right opportunities, with the right rigor, at the right pace. This is a high-visibility role designed to give an early-career professional from venture capital, investment banking, or corporate development direct operating exposure at one of the most strategically positioned independent software companies in the AI era.
What you will do
Conduct outbound sourcing and market mapping across AI coding, developer tools, application security, and adjacent SDLC categories — building and continuously refreshing landscapes of public and private companies relevant to Sonar's strategy.
Triage inbound and outbound opportunities, performing first-pass commercial, product, and technical screens to determine fit, priority, and recommended next steps.
Own and maintain Sonar's corporate development pipeline (CRM hygiene, target lists, status tracking, weekly reporting), ensuring leadership has a clear, real-time view of activity and progress.
Build and maintain relationships with founders, operators, bankers, venture investors, and other ecosystem participants to generate proprietary deal flow.
Engage with internal stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Go-to-Market, Finance, and Legal to gather strategic input, prioritize targets, and align on evaluation criteria.
Run structured diligence workstreams on prioritized targets, including analysis of key business metrics (ARR growth, net and gross retention, gross margin, profitability/burn, sales efficiency, customer concentration) and product/technical fit.
Build financial models, valuation analyses (comps, precedent transactions, DCF where appropriate), and synthesis materials to support investment decisions and executive review.
Prepare crisp, executive-ready memos, dashboards, and board-quality materials that translate complex diligence findings into clear recommendations.
Support deal execution by coordinating across internal teams, external advisors, and target-side counterparts on data room reviews, Q&A, and process management.
Partner with cross-functional leaders on integration planning and execution for closed transactions, helping translate deal theses into 30/60/90-day operating plans and tracking integration KPIs post-close
Contribute to Sonar's broader corporate strategy work, including market sizing, competitive analyses, and "build vs. partner vs. buy" frameworks for new product and category bets.
Experience and qualifications
2+ years of full-time experience in venture capital, growth equity, investment banking (TMT/software coverage or M&A), management consulting (with a tech focus), or in-house corporate development at a high-quality technology company.
Demonstrated exposure to the full deal lifecycle — sourcing, diligence, modeling, and ideally support on transaction execution and/or post-close integration.
Strong financial and analytical fundamentals: comfortable building three-statement and operating models, conducting valuation analyses, and rigorously interrogating SaaS/software business metrics (ARR, NRR/GRR, CAC payback, magic number, Rule of 40, gross margin, FCF).
Genuine interest in and curiosity about the developer tools, AI coding, code security, and broader software/DevOps ecosystem; ability to quickly come up to speed on new product categories and technical concepts.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of producing clear, concise, executive-ready memos and presentations.
Highly organized, self-directed, and proactive — comfortable owning a pipeline, managing parallel workstreams, and operating with minimal supervision in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
Strong interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence; able to build trust quickly with founders, executives, advisors, and internal stakeholders across functions and geographies.
Sound judgment, intellectual honesty, and a high degree of discretion when handling confidential information.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, business, computer science, engineering, or a related field; strong academic record.
The ideal candidate will:
Skills Required
- 2+ years of full-time experience in venture capital, growth equity, investment banking, or management consulting
- Exposure to the full deal lifecycle including sourcing, diligence, and modeling
- Strong financial and analytical skills including building operating models and conducting valuation analyses
- Genuine interest in developer tools, AI coding, and software ecosystem
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce executive-ready memos
- Highly organized and self-directed, able to manage multiple workstreams
- Strong interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence
- Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, business, computer science, engineering, or related field
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Sonar Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave & Time Off Breadth: Paid time off is positioned as generous for U.S. employees, with a substantial baseline, additional sick leave and holidays, and tenure-based increases. Company-wide time off is also highlighted as part of the package.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare Strength: Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with the employer covering most employee premiums for medical, dental, and vision, and fully funding life and disability insurance. Telemedicine, mental health resources, and an employee assistance program are also included.
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Retirement Support — Retirement Support: A 401(k) plan with a company match that vests from day one is offered, providing straightforward long-term savings support. This is complemented by employer-paid life and disability protections.
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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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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.
