Staff Engineer, Cloud Platform

Sonar’s industry leading solution solves the trillion-dollar challenge of bad code, equipping developers and organizations to reach a problem-free state in their codebase with Clean Code. Through its unique Clean as You Code methodology, the organization has empowered 7 million developers and 400,000 organizations across the globe to systematically deliver better software. 

The SonarCloud team is looking for a passionate Cloud Platform Engineer to support the continued growth of the SonarCloud product. By joining us you will be a key player as a member of our first engineering squad in Austin. 

The Impact you can have

In this role, you will leverage your experience and expertise to build and maintain new features in SonarCloud. This means implementing massively scalable services, automating all system operations, measuring, continuously improving the service quality, and making the lives of other developers easier.

On a daily basis, you will

• Evolve and operate cloud-based solutions through automation, scalability, and performance in mind. 
• Continuously and proactively enhance the architecture design and implementation. Taking into account performance, security, disaster recovery, and costs.
• Take part in sprints as part of an integrated squad made of Backend Developers and SREs.
• Perform and automate operational tasks such as deployments with a DevOps mindset.
• Push your new features into production.
• Increase validation testing across the DevOps lifecycle for a cloud-native platform.
• Document as-is and future state solutions to ensure evergreen documentation is maintained.
• Collaborate with SREs to enhance operational resilience, scalability, and observability.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders (CTO, data team, release engineers, etc.) to make sure solutions fit into the Sonar ecosystem.
• Document and share reusable building blocks.
• Own testability of the infrastructure (deploy, validate, tear-down).
• Maintain physical and logical plans.
• Take planned steps to ensure that all platforms and capabilities operate within a given region and account limits to ensure scalability.
• Dedicate effort to improve resilience and scalability tests in performance environments to stay ahead of growth inhibitors.
• Participate in AWS Well-Architected Reviews and Trusted Advisor findings resolution.

The skills you will demonstrate

• Prod-oriented, AWS Cloud background, and belief in having DevOps profiles working together as a tightly-knit team. You are motivated by both the technical and the functional aspects of services.
• Experience in supporting customer-facing production services with good security practices.
• You are trained and believe in leveraging managed services. You are a friendly, attentive, enthusiastic, and organized team player that actively shares their knowledge. Comfortable giving and receiving feedback to improve the team and yourself.
• Solid experience with architecture: experience with delivering cloud-native applications, architecture modeling, and implementation on AWS.
• You see yourself as a Cloud Platform Engineer who knows how to implement the blueprints you designed.
• Motivated by both technical and functional aspects of services, you understand the value of code over presentations and see yourself as an engineer at heart.3+ years of experience with AWS implementations and automating deployments.
• Strong understanding of software development practices: quality, testing (unit, functional, and resilience), and CI/CD.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, CloudFormation (YAML), and/or the CDK python library is a plus.
• Experience with AWS Well-Architected Review and/or AWS certification.
• Developing in Python and Bash with clean code is a must. You enjoy exploring new technologies.
• Comfortable with agile practices and principles by working in sprints.
• A DevOps mindset is a must-have.
• Familiarity with the AWS Builders Library is a benefit.

Words from the Team

We come from different backgrounds and countries. We have diverse skills and personalities. By joining us, you will be part of an autonomous team that has a direct impact on the product, that owns and defines its best way of building cool things and having fun together, and that is always evolving.

Come meet us!

Why you will love it here

• We value a safe work culture - founded in respect, kindness, and the right to fail.

• We hire great people - we value communication skills as much as technical prowess and we strive to create a work environment that allows for everyone to succeed and feel empowered to do their best work. Our 500+ SonarSourcers from 35 different nationalities can relate!

• Work-life balance - a healthy work-life balance is very important at Sonar.

• Flexible hours - we schedule our days in order to be effective at work, while also being able to enjoy life’s important moments.

• We promote continuous learning - in an ever-changing industry, learning new skills is the key to growth and success! We're happy to support all employees in this journey if desired. 

What we do

As Home of Clean Code, Sonar is the ultimate solution to achieving Clean Code for developers and organizations alike. 

The company was formed to develop the open-source tool SonarQube, which has since become the go-to standard in code quality management. We strive every day to pave the way for developers, tackling the toughest issues head-on and pushing the limits of what’s possible. 

Who we are

At Sonar we believe in people, dedication, and innovation. We’re a team of problem solvers who are passionate and relentless in their respective missions. We want to work with people who are ready and willing to fasten their seat belts and be part of an incredible ride! 

Our Core Values are: Smarter Together, Excellence, Innovation, and Delivery. They reflect our unique culture and we expect them to help shape and positively strengthen our organization. 

If you want to learn more about our culture, check out our blog post.

Join us; we’ll be smarter and stronger together!

Sonar is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to treating every employee with equal respect and fairness. We maintain a zero-tolerance policy toward any form of discrimination. All candidates will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.