Sonar

VP of Engineering

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Geneva

Hybrid

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Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Information Technology • Security • Software

Sonar is committed to enabling developers and organizations to build better code for better software.

The Role

The VP of Engineering will lead engineering teams, drive technical strategy, ensure product reliability, and foster a high-performance culture across global locations.

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Who is Sonar?

Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.

We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily.

We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.

And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.

At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations.

Why You Should Apply:

At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.

We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.

The Impact You Will Have:

As the Vice President of Engineering, you will empower and enable our talented engineers. Your vision will directly shape our competitive edge by fostering a state-of-the-art engineering discipline that results in best-in-class products, already loved by over 7 million users.

You will expand and mentor our world-class teams across Code Orchestration, Code Quality, and Onboarding, owning the capabilities that bring our customers onto the platform, delivering value while deepening product usage. You will be responsible for working hand in hand with domain leaders to structure, adapt to our challenging roadmaps and ambitious delivery plans.

You will work across our geographical locations, using best-in-class tooling to ensure high velocity and deep talent development for our talented engineers. Your leadership will be pivotal in raising our bar of delivery, product, engineering discipline and ultimately a superior customer experience.

In this role, you will lead a team of Directors, be responsible for the strategic technical direction, architecture, and delivery of our solutions.

What You Will Do Daily:

People & Cultural Leadership

Team Scaling & Talent Management: Drive the recruitment, hiring, and retention strategy to build a world-class, diverse engineering organization capable of scaling with the platform.
Leadership Development: Mentor and manage senior engineering leaders (Directors, Managers), empowering them to lead their own teams effectively.
Culture Definition: Define, foster, and protect a high-performance engineering culture that prizes technical excellence, developer empathy, ownership, and rapid iteration.

Technical & Strategic Vision

Technical Strategy: Own the long-term technical vision and architectural roadmap, ensuring the platform remains scalable, reliable, and secure across our On-Prem offering, SonarQube Server (SQS), and SonarQube Cloud, our multi-region/multi-tenant SaaS offering, while continuously evolving our analyzers.
Developer Ecosystem Expertise: Maintain a deep understanding of the developer landscape (CI/CD pipelines, IDEs, new languages, static analysis trends) to guide product and technical strategy.
Innovation & R&D: Champion research and development efforts, evaluating new technologies and methodologies to keep the product suite at the forefront of the developer tools market.
"Dogfooding" Evangelism: Mandate and promote the internal use of the company's own code quality and security tools to drive product improvements and demonstrate technical credibility.

Execution & Delivery

SaaS Operations & Reliability: Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the capabilities deployed across our products, SQS & SQC, owning incident response and resolution of RCA outcomes.
SDLC Optimization: Continuously refine and scale the software development lifecycle (SDLC), optimizing for high-velocity, high-quality releases through robust CI/CD and DevOps practices.
Quality & Security Standards: Set and enforce rigorous standards for engineering quality, testing, and application security across all product development (we have a strong recommendation for the right tool to help with that).
Engineering Metrics: Define and track key engineering metrics (e.g., deployment frequency, lead time for changes, MTTR, platform uptime) to measure and improve team effectiveness.

Cross-Functional & Business Alignment

C-Suite Partnership: Serve as part of the primary engineering owners to the C-suite (especially the CEO, CPO, and CTO), translating company-level business goals into a concrete, executable engineering roadmap.
Product Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Product Management to balance technical debt, feature development, and platform infrastructure needs, ensuring predictable delivery against the roadmap.
Technical Evangelism: Act as a key technical spokesperson for the company, engaging with strategic customers, partners, and the broader developer community.
Domain ownership: Spearhead the company's Engineering function - encompassing our domains across Code Orchestration, Code Quality and Onboarding.

The Experience You Will Need:

15+ years of progressive experience in the engineering domain, with at least 8+ years in an international leadership capacity managing high performing teams of Managers and Engineers in a fast paced technical environment.
A proven track record of delivering in a product focused organization with large-scale deployment to primarily B2B customers with significant, measurable business impacts (e.g., revenue growth, cost savings, enhanced user engagement).
Deep technical expertise in multi-region Saas platform delivery, ideally with experience of on-prem applications. Owning the management of both technical and product roadmap alignments, able to land technical decisions with help of architecture to ensure long-term resilient implementations with low total cost of ownership.
Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to articulate a compelling vision for the Engineering Division and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear and measurable business value for an executive audience.
Visionary leadership skills with the proven ability to recruit, mentor, and inspire a multi-disciplinary team of world-class engineers and analysts, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and intellectual curiosity.
Ability to be flexible and open to change and collaborate across a broad range of engineering disciplines and backgrounds.
Be motivated by the pace of delivery in an organization with over 30% growth and a broad scale of customers across multiple industries and geographies where scaling and expanding is a continuous demand.

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:

We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 27 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
We contribute 60% of the total cost for your pension; 13.5% to 15.5% of your base salary for savings; 2% for risk.
Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.
Commuting:Sustainable mobility options, including carpooling and the refund of 60% of the annual transportation subscription.
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.

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.

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise 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.

Top Skills

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DevOps

SaaS

Security Standards

Static Analysis

Tools For Code Quality

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The Company

HQ: Geneva

800 Employees

Year Founded: 2008

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.