VP of Engineering

Who is Sonar?  

Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development. As the leader in AI code review and verification, we solve a critical problem: ensuring that software generated by AI-assisted developers or autonomous agents is reliable, secure, and maintainable.

Integrating seamlessly with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and Devin, we help over 75% of the Fortune 100 build trusted, reliable, compliant software. Customers who use Sonar are 44% less likely to report an outage due to AI-generated code.

We believe code verification is the critical missing link in the Agent-Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC). Industry giants like Nvidia, ServiceNow, Booking.com, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company.count on us to provide independent, explainable, consistent review and governance of their AI-generated code via products like:

• SonarQube: The world’s leading AI code review and verification platform.

• SonarQube Foundation Agent: Currently topping the leaderboards for agentic software repair.

• SonarSweep & Sonar Context Augmentation: Providing the enterprise-grade context and constraints agents need to be truly effective.

Our team operates across global hubs in Austin, Bochum, Dubai, Geneva, London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington D.C. We move with a mindset we call CODE:

• Committed to our customers and community.

• Obsessed with quality.

• Deliberate in our decisions.

• Effective as one team.

With over $400M in revenue and profitable, fast-paced growth, we are building the backbone of the AI software revolution. If you’re hungry to have an impact, want to build at a fast pace, and ready to work at the forefront of AI, we want to hear from you.

  Position description   As the Vice President of Engineering, you will empower and enable our talented engineers. Your vision will directly shape our competitive edge by fostering a state-of-the-art engineering discipline that results in best-in-class products, already loved by over 7 million users.    You will expand and mentor our world-class teams across Code Orchestration, Code Quality, and Onboarding, owning the capabilities that bring our customers onto the platform, delivering value while deepening product usage. You will be responsible for working hand in hand with domain leaders to structure, adapt to our challenging roadmaps and ambitious delivery plans.    You will work across our geographical locations, using best-in-class tooling to ensure high velocity and deep talent development for our talented engineers. Your leadership will be pivotal in raising our bar of delivery, product, engineering discipline and ultimately a superior customer experience.   In this role, you will lead a team of Directors, be responsible for the strategic technical direction, architecture, and delivery of our solutions.   What you will do

People & Cultural Leadership

Team Scaling & Talent Management: Drive the recruitment, hiring, and retention strategy to build a world-class, diverse engineering organization capable of scaling with the platform.

Leadership Development: Mentor and manage senior engineering leaders (Directors, Managers), empowering them to lead their own teams effectively.

Culture Definition: Define, foster, and protect a high-performance engineering culture that prizes technical excellence, developer empathy, ownership, and rapid iteration.

Technical & Strategic Vision

Technical Strategy: Own the long-term technical vision and architectural roadmap, ensuring the platform remains scalable, reliable, and secure across our On-Prem offering, SonarQube Server (SQS), and SonarQube Cloud, our multi-region/multi-tenant SaaS offering, while continuously evolving our analyzers.

Developer Ecosystem Expertise: Maintain a deep understanding of the developer landscape (CI/CD pipelines, IDEs, new languages, static analysis trends) to guide product and technical strategy.

Innovation & R&D: Champion research and development efforts, evaluating new technologies and methodologies to keep the product suite at the forefront of the developer tools market.

"Dogfooding" Evangelism: Mandate and promote the internal use of the company's own code quality and security tools to drive product improvements and demonstrate technical credibility.

Execution & Delivery

SaaS Operations & Reliability: Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the capabilities deployed across our products, SQS & SQC, owning incident response and resolution of RCA outcomes.

SDLC Optimization: Continuously refine and scale the software development lifecycle (SDLC), optimizing for high-velocity, high-quality releases through robust CI/CD and DevOps practices.

Quality & Security Standards: Set and enforce rigorous standards for engineering quality, testing, and application security across all product development (we have a strong recommendation for the right tool to help with that).

Engineering Metrics: Define and track key engineering metrics (e.g., deployment frequency, lead time for changes, MTTR, platform uptime) to measure and improve team effectiveness.

Cross-Functional & Business Alignment

C-Suite Partnership: Serve as part of the primary engineering owners to the C-suite (especially the CEO, CPO, and CTO), translating company-level business goals into a concrete, executable engineering roadmap.

Product Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Product Management to balance technical debt, feature development, and platform infrastructure needs, ensuring predictable delivery against the roadmap.

Technical Evangelism: Act as a key technical spokesperson for the company, engaging with strategic customers, partners, and the broader developer community.

Domain ownership: Spearhead the company's Engineering function - encompassing our domains across Code Orchestration, Code Quality and Onboarding.

Experience and qualifications

15+ years of progressive experience in the engineering domain, with at least 8+ years in an international leadership capacity managing high performing teams of Managers and Engineers in a fast paced technical environment.

A proven track record of delivering in a product focused organization with large-scale deployment to primarily B2B customers with significant, measurable business impacts (e.g., revenue growth, cost savings, enhanced user engagement).

Deep technical expertise in multi-region Saas platform delivery, ideally with experience of on-prem applications. Owning the management of both technical and product roadmap alignments, able to land technical decisions with help of architecture to ensure long-term resilient implementations with low total cost of ownership.

Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to articulate a compelling vision for the Engineering Division and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear and measurable business value for an executive audience.

Visionary leadership skills with the proven ability to recruit, mentor, and inspire a multi-disciplinary team of world-class engineers and analysts, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and intellectual curiosity.

Ability to be flexible and open to change and collaborate across a broad range of engineering disciplines and backgrounds.

Be motivated by the pace of delivery in an organization with over 30% growth and a broad scale of customers across multiple industries and geographies where scaling and expanding is a continuous demand.

Additional comments

This role is based in Geneva. We are unable to consider candidates unwilling to be in Geneva, but we are willing to relocate the right candidate.

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.

If you need any accommodation, please reach out to us at hiring@sonarsource.com. 

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date. 

We do not currently support visa candidates in the US. 

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.