Staff Site Reliability Engineer, SonarSource
+ Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually
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3 days a week in office
Code quality management platform
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Code quality management platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To enable developers and development teams to write clean code and remediate existing code organically, so that they can focus on the work they love and maximize the value they generate for businesses.
Role
Who you are
- Deep IaC Expertise: Professional experience provisioning and managing complex infrastructure using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation (AWS), or similar tools like Ansible or Puppet for configuration management
- Cloud/Platform Experience: Hands-on experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) or managing large-scale internal/private cloud infrastructure
- SLO/SLI Implementation: Practical experience defining, measuring, and reporting on Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for critical services
- Logging/Metrics/Tracing Stacks: Proven experience with modern observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/EFK stack, proprietary systems, or vendor solutions like Datadog/Splunk) for proactive issue identification
- Networking: Strong understanding of core networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing, Firewalls, Proxies) sufficient to debug complex service connectivity and latency issues
- Automation of Security Controls: Experience implementing security best practices via code, such as automated vulnerability scanning, configuration hardening, secret management (e.g., HashiCorp Vault), and key rotation
- Identity and Access Management (IAM): Practical experience managing large-scale IAM systems (e.g., implementing least-privilege policies, single sign-on)
- Incident Management: Experience running or significantly contributing to post-incident reviews (post-mortems) and prioritizing resulting engineering work (error budget management)
What the job involves
- We are still at the beginning of our growth journey, so we are putting new processes, technologies, and tools in place on a continuous basis
- Your role is a pivotal engineering contributor to the tooling and services to automate and enhance the software development lifecycle, empowering our fellow SonarSourcers to deliver with speed, confidence, and security
- You would be a member of a team that delivers solutions across all of our 5 offices: Austin (Texas, US), Geneva (Switzerland), Bochum (Germany) and Singapore
- As a Site Reliability Engineer, you use and create automation tools to monitor and observe production infrastructure services both on premises and in the cloud
- You are allergic to repetitive tasks, preferring to maximize automation and reliability
- You are expert in change management, infrastructure management, system support, and configuration management
- System Health Monitoring, Alert Triaging, and Error Budget Management: Dedicate time to monitoring critical security infrastructure (e.g., identity platforms, firewalls, compliance systems) and core infrastructure components
- Focus on using and maintaining dashboards tied to Service Level Objectives (SLOs), triaging high-severity alerts, and analyzing the current Error Budget burn rate to guide prioritization for the rest of the day
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Policy as Code Development: Spend the largest portion of time writing, reviewing, and testing code (e.g., Python, Go, Terraform, or proprietary tools) to automate the deployment, configuration, and security hardening of infrastructure
- This involves treating infrastructure and security policies as software to ensure consistency and prevent configuration drift
- Toil Elimination and Automation of Operational Tasks: Identify, scope, and implement automated solutions for manual, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks (toil) related to security patching, compliance checks, certificate rotations, or infrastructure maintenance
- The goal is to continuously reduce the operational workload for the team
- Security Pipeline and Observability Maintenance: Maintain and enhance the DevSecOps security tools integrated into the CI/CD pipelines (e.g., static analysis, vulnerability scanning, security configuration checks). Ensure the end-to-end logging, metrics, and tracing (observability) systems for both infrastructure and security tools are robust, accurate, and provide immediate diagnostic capability during incidents
- Incident Response Engineering and Post-Mortem Action: Participate in the on-call rotation and actively engage in engineering solutions derived from post-mortems
- This means turning incident root causes into preventative measures implemented via code, improving runbooks into automated actions, and reducing Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) for future incidents
Our take
It has been reported that bug-prone software costs enterprises close to $3 trillion every year, and with developers now handling higher volumes of code than ever, SonarSource’s products automatically ensure that only clean code is embedded when they update software.
The company was founded in Switzerland in 2008, and has become the market leading platform for code quality control. While its first decade was encouraging, the period from 2018 and today has been an astounding period of hyper growth.
It has earned Unicorn status, opened up offices across Europe, as well as in the US and Asia, and counts the likes of Nasa, Microsoft, and IBM amongst its customer base. Indeed, the vast majority of the Fortune 100 use SonarSource.
With its position at the head of the market established, SonarSource is aiming to expand its headcount and continue its momentum, especially in the US and Asia-Pacific, where the tech industry is booming
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
39% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2022
$412m
LATE VC
Nov 2016
$47.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $459.5m
Company benefits
- Safe work culture - we value respect, kindness, and the right to fail.
- Flexible hours - we schedule our days in order to be effective at work, while also being able to enjoy life’s important moments.
- Great people - we value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly and laid back. Still, that does not prevent us to be passionate leaders in our domains. Our 300+ SonarSourcers from 33 different nationalities can relate!
- Work-life balance - keeping a healthy work-life balance is important. This is why we have a hybrid work policy and some people prefer working some days from home.
- Always keep learning - in an ever-changing industry, learning new skills is a must, and we're happy to help our team to acquire them.
Company HQ
Vernier, GE
Leadership
Olivier Gaudin
(CEO)Co-founded SonarSource in 2008 alongside Freddy Mallet and Simon Brandhof, who have since moved on. Previously worked at JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank, before becoming Head of Development at Marketing Services company CIFEA DMK.
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