Senior Platform Engineer

What You Will Do Daily:

• Own and enhance our CI/CD pipelines, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and efficient.
• Empower developers with self-service tools, reducing friction in the development process.
• Measure and improve developer experience using data-driven insights and key performance metrics.
• Advocate and educate, showcasing demos and best practices to keep teams informed.
• Secure the software supply chain, ensuring industry standard compliance and reducing security risks.
• Automate infrastructure and pipeline configurations to reduce drift and improve reliability.
• Collaborate with teams to establish standardized deployment and release processes.
• Scale and optimize Sonar’s AWS Infrastructure: Self-hosted runners, CI tooling, and secrets management.
• Lead cross-team collaboration, driving initiatives that improve engineering workflows.

The Experience You Will Need:

• Strong experience in DevOps, CI/CD, and automation in cloud environments.
• Strong programming skills in both statically typed (e.g., Java) and dynamically typed (e.g., Python) languages, complemented by expertise in Shell scripting (e.g., Bash).
• Deep knowledge of AWS, HashiCorp Terraform, and AWS CDK.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, and build tools (Maven, Gradle, NPM, Yarn, MSBuild…).
• Expertise in containerization technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, and EKS.
• Strong experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration as Code (CaC), and Everything as Code principles.
• Security-first mindset, with experience in securing CI/CD pipelines and secrets management.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog.
• Bonus: Experience with Sonar products and Renovate.
• Autonomous, pragmatic, and results-driven, with a focus on execution.
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills, driving engineering-wide initiatives.
• Effective communicator, engaging with developers and stakeholders to drive adoption.
• Open-minded and adaptable, comfortable navigating complexity and change.
• Challenger of the status quo, continuously improving processes and tooling.
• Bias toward action, prioritizing progress over perfection.

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:

• Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package that is 90% paid by the company.
• We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations.
• We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.
• Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.  
• Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin, Texas.
• 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.