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:
The Sonar Code Quality Team is seeking a passionate and innovative Software Engineer to join our Advanced Bug Detection Squad.
The Advanced Bug Detection Squad’s mission is to implement sophisticated solutions that automatically identify and prevent critical bugs in code written by developers and generated by AI agents.
This role allows you to apply your deep expertise in static analysis in a truly innovative way, pioneering the integration of cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Model (LLM) techniques within a domain that’s closely tied to applied research.
As part of the Advanced Bug Detection Squad, you’ll tackle the exciting opportunity of leveraging cutting-edge technologies to truly understand programming language semantics. Your work will enable us to detect complex bugs that often escape both human review and LLMs.
What You Will Do Daily:
- Contribute to End-to-End Delivery: Work with Product Managers, engineering teams, and research teams to specify and implement complex bug detection capabilities in our products. This means everything from scoping out specifications and writing robust code and tests, to meticulously reviewing peer contributions, validating new features, and acting on user feedback post-release.
- Deep Dive into Language Semantics: You’ll consistently immerse yourself in the intricacies of programming language semantics, pushing our understanding to new depths.
- Evolve Analyzer Intelligence: You’ll directly influence how our analyzers interpret code by crafting better models and developing innovative new rules on top of them, making our detection capabilities smarter and more precise.
- Contribute to Strategic Goals: You’ll participate with various stakeholders to actively contribute to and define the squad’s short-term objectives and long-term strategic vision.
The Experience You Will Need:
- 2+ years of Java development experience.
- Strong engineering skills and a deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals.
- Proven grasp of static analysis techniques preferred, ready to apply them to complex bug detection problems.
- Familiarity with Symbolic Execution and SMT solvers is appreciated, but not required.
- Experience or a strong curiosity about Large Language Models (LLMs), Machine Learning (ML), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is highly valued.
- Ability to learn fast.
- Open-minded and very positive can-do attitude.
- Comfortable in dealing with change and complexity.
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.
