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.
What you will do
Secure by design: Partner with product, platform, and infrastructure engineering teams to design and implement secure solutions.
Security review: Review cloud,network and endpoint architectures to ensure security requirements are identified early and integrated effectively.
Cloud security: Help engineering teams improve security across the software development lifecycle, cloud environments, and supporting services.
Vulnerability management: Investigate security findings, validate risk, partner with owners on remediation plans, and help drive issues to closure.
Security engineering projects: Develop and implement security specific solutions that support Sonar’s strategic security plan, including evaluating and introducing new tools and capabilities.
Data Leakage: Drive DLP efforts across the company.
Customer trust support: Investigate and help address customer security concerns related to Sonar products, cloud platforms, and security controls.
Security incidents: As needed, act as a security subject matter expert during investigations, containment, remediation, and post-incident follow-up.
Threat management: Review relevant threat intelligence, assess how it applies to Sonar, and recommend practical mitigations.
Standards and guidance: Contribute to security patterns, engineering guidance, and repeatable practices that make the secure path the easiest path for teams.
Experience and qualifications
You can demonstrate strong hands-on experience in security engineering, cloud security, application security, or a closely related discipline.
You can demonstrate in-depth experience with cloud architectures, primarily AWS.
You can demonstrate experience reviewing architectures and embedding security requirements into engineering and operational workflows.
You can demonstrate experience assessing and securing modern application environments, including AI and agentic AI features.
You can demonstrate experience with vulnerability investigation, prioritization, and remediation management.
You can demonstrate practical scripting and automation experience using tools such as Python or Bash.
You are comfortable working across technical and non-technical stakeholders and can communicate risk and recommendations clearly.
Experience with SaaS environments. Wiz, CrowdStrike, and Google Workspace are a plus.
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Benefits
- Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package.
- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations. You will receive 23 days of PTO per calendar year (on a pro-rated basis depending on your employment start date), with additional time provided for sickness, life events and holidays
- .We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.
- Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin, Texas.
- 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.
- Monthly catered events, and team events
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.
We do not currently support visa candidates in the US.
Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.
Skills Required
- Strong hands-on experience in security engineering or cloud security
- In-depth experience with cloud architectures, primarily AWS
- Experience reviewing architectures and embedding security requirements
- Experience assessing and securing modern application environments
- Experience with vulnerability investigation and remediation
- Practical scripting and automation experience with Python or Bash
- Comfortable communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience with SaaS environments like Wiz, CrowdStrike, and Google Workspace is a plus
What the Team is Saying
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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.
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.
