Security Product Manager
Bochum
Product Development – Code Security /
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:
Sonar is looking for passionate Product Managers who will make our products truly loved by developers around the world. You will be part of the Product Management team that drives the vision and roadmaps for SonarQube Cloud, SonarQube Server, and SonarQube for IDE. We are currently looking for Product Managers with a deep technical background in the field of code security or static application security testing (SAST).
As a Product Manager, you will shape our code security offering, ensuring that our users write more secure code and have a seamless experience in the product. To achieve this perfect match, we need a passionate Product Manager who will research, clarify, prioritize the needs of developers, and translate those needs across our product line. You will become an expert user of our products, from very high-level features down to technical aspects of the analysis processing.
You will join the Product Management team, which is composed of other passionate Product Managers eager to collaborate with you. You will also work closely with engaged Engineering teams to ensure that the proposed solutions meet the expected outcome and that we collectively deliver the best products to help development teams write better and more secure code.
By joining us, you will bring your deep knowledge of code security or SAST, and your experience as a Product Manager to help SonarSource reach the next level and provide an awesome user experience to millions of developers.
What You Will Do Daily:
- Contribute to the product visions and communicate about them, internally and externally.
- Research, clarify, and prioritize opportunities to build and maintain an effective roadmap.
- Interact with our users and customers on our product forum to support them, integrate their feedback, and identify opportunities.
- Develop a deep understanding of code security and how we can enable developers to write more secure software.
- Work closely with other product managers to design cross-product features.
- Align with the engineering and UX teams on the problems to solve and support them during the end-to-end development stage of the solutions.
- Sync with the engineering teams to ensure that there is a good balance between innovation, consolidation, and stability.
- Attend conferences and give talks if you like.
- Help the Product Management team grow in its organization, tools, and processes.
The Experience You Will Need:
- Experience in software product management, preferably in an agile context.
- Passionate about secure software development and application security testing.
- Deep understanding of the security needs in at least one speciality domain, e.g. cloud, IaC, or mobile security.
- Familiar with the application security testing (AST) market and its vendors.
- Technical comprehension of the architectures related to code scanning and static analysis
- Highly autonomous and pragmatic.
- Open-minded and very positive can-do attitude.
- Comfortable in dealing with change, complexity, and uncertainty.
- Self-confident enough to challenge the status quo as well as to receive feedback.
- Leadership: you take initiative and demonstrate your ability to lead a subject from beginning to end.
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:
- Pension Scheme: 1st Pillar (Unterstützungskasse): Automatic, financed by Sonar, 3% of gross salary.
- Pension Scheme:2nd Pillar (bAV): Voluntary, 15% contribution by Sonar from social security savings.
- Public transport reimbursement of 60% for annual subscription.
- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 28 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
- Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.
- 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.
