Job Description
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 a Principal Platform Engineer (Architecture & Enablement), you will be the technical catalyst behind our "Golden Path" strategy, turning architectural vision into tangible engineering reality. You will sit at the intersection of our Platform Division and our Product Software Engineers, providing them with the autonomy to ship faster and safer. You will design and build the "Golden Path" engine—the core scaffolding, CLI tools, and internal portal integrations—that allows engineering teams to bootstrap production-ready services in minutes, not days. You will engineer the foundational software blocks and libraries that solve common backend challenges once, enabling product teams to focus on business logic rather than reinventing infrastructure plumbing. You will act as a force multiplier, actively identifying friction points in our entire development lifecycle (from IDE to Production) and building the integration "glue" that eliminates them. You will serve as the R&D arm for the platform, prototyping emerging technologies (e.g., coding agents, ephemeral environments) to validate their value before scaling them across the organization.