Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Geneva
Product Development – Storefront /
Employee / Full-Time /
On-site
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:
Join us in shaping the future of SonarQube and empower over 10 million developers worldwide to write cleaner, more secure code. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will implement massively scalable services, automate all systems operations, and measure and continuously optimize service quality.
You will operate in a fast-paced, high-impact environment, contributing to both cloud-native services and on-premises solutions. Your work enhances authentication, authorization, and platform security—key areas relied upon by our open-source community of over 500,000 members and tens of thousands of corporate customers, including NASA, Novartis, Ubisoft, and Microsoft.
Based in Geneva, Switzerland, you will join an interdisciplinary squad of software engineers, product managers, and UX designers. You will collaborate with highly skilled engineers who simplify the complexity of Identity and Access Management (IAM) while ensuring seamless integration for our customers. If you thrive on impact, ownership, and technical excellence, we want you on our team.
What You Will Do Daily:
- Have significant responsibility for working with the Software Engineers, Cloud Platform Engineers, Release Engineers, Security Officers, and other SREs to ensure that SonarCloud reliability and performance meet our customers' needs, while being efficient and with a manageable operational load.
- Participate in designing and implementing features and observability best practices by having a practical understanding of SonarCloud functionality and business processes.
- Be fully responsible for operating the AWS infrastructure owned by your squad.
- Monitor and proactively maintain SonarCloud's Service Levels (availability, scalability, and performance).
- Respond to and own alerts, troubleshoot issues, and mitigate incidents.
- Analyze abnormal trends in SLI, breached SLOs, and trigger actions.
- Enhance the monitoring and observability tools (CFN and CDK python) and own implementation of four golden signals across the SonarCloud platform (Latency, Traffic, Errors and Saturation).
- Maintain operational documentation.
- Support the customer-facing support functions.
- Support deployments and perform technical scheduled maintenance.
The Experience You Will Need:
- You have excellent engineering skills and good computer science fundamentals.
- You have spent 5 years in software engineering and have at least 3 years of experience in an SRE role, focusing on large-scale distributed systems. You understand SRE principles, including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and other common reliability engineering concepts.
- You have proven experience building and supporting large-scale, highly available, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems.
- You have solid experience with AWS services, including CloudWatch, CloudFormation, ECS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, and more.
- With an SRE mindset, you apply software engineering to observing and operating production.
- You have software development experience with Python.
- You are open-minded and have a very positive can-do attitude.
- You take initiative and have the ability to lead a subject from beginning to end.
- You have strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- You are comfortable with dealing with change and complexity.
- You are motivated by both functional and technical aspects of services.
- You have excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, as well as a strong attention to detail.
- You enjoy troubleshooting and finding the root cause of issues.
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.
