Developer Content Engineer
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Job Location:
Geneva, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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 Sonars 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 its a mindset that defines daily operations.
Why You Should Apply:
At Sonar were 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 dont. Our solutions dont just solve symptoms of problems we help fix issues at the source for all code whether its 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 were all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better faster.
The Impact You Will Have:
As a Developer Content Engineer you will be the authentic voice that connects Sonars products (SonarQube Server Cloud IDE MCP Server Advanced Security) to the global developer community. Your work will directly shape how practitioners using Sonar productsincluding developers DevOps and platform engineersapproach code quality and security. You will be the trusted expert translating complex capabilities into practical knowledge. By crafting compelling hands-on educational content such as in-depth tutorials blogs and engaging videos you will enable millions of practitioners to write high quality secure code. You wont just explain features; you will define the developers journey with our products establishing Sonar as an essential part of their SDLC workflow. This is a unique opportunity to blend your passion for building software with your talent for teaching making a direct and lasting impact on how developers worldwide build the next generation of applications.
What You Will Do Daily:
- Create SonarQube product content that enables developers
- You will write produce and maintain a variety of high-impact technical content including hands-on tutorials in-depth blog posts practical how-to guides and engaging videos.
- Youll develop comprehensive learning content and real-world project examples that guide developers from beginner to advanced users of Sonars tools.
- You will demonstrate how to solve real-world problems by integrating SonarQube into CI/CD pipelines identifying critical vulnerabilities and improving overall code maintainability.
- Youll build compelling hands-on labs and workshops that allow developers to directly experience the value of our tools and best practices.
- You will use AI to scale content creation and produce even higher impact work.
- You will act as an authentic technical expert for Sonar on our blog social media channels and other developer forums.
- Youll engage directly with the developer community to understand their pain points gather feedback and use those insights to shape your content strategy.
- You will monitor industry trends across software development application security and DevOps to ensure our content is always relevant timely and forward-thinking.
- You will work hands-on with Sonars products every day ensuring that all content code samples and configurations are technically accurate and practically useful.
- Youll collaborate closely with Product Engineering and Marketing teams to translate complex product capabilities into clear actionable content.
- You will use analytics to measure content performance understand what resonates with our audience and use that data to optimize your strategy and future content.
- Youll do all of this while communicating in interesting compelling and creative ways while displaying good grammar and copywriting skills.
- Youll work independently to identify what content gaps need filling and propose content to fill them.
Be a trusted voice in the developer community
Own the quality and Impact of your work
The Experience You Will Need:
- Hands-on experience with SonarQube (SonarQube Cloud/Server SonarQube for IDE) in production or development environments
- Strong software development or DevOps background with proficiency in some programming languages
- Solid understanding of DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines version control (Git) and automation tools (Jenkins GitLab CI GitHub Actions etc.)
- Experience with code quality security and testing concepts including SAST DAST code coverage and vulnerability management
- Proven track record of creating technical content for developer audiences (provide portfolio/examples)
- Video creation and good speaking skills
- 2-5 years previous development experience is ideal but experience working closely with developers is a fair substitute.
- 2-3 years professional content creation experience or previous experience in Developer Relations Content role or Developer Marketing
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 an ever-changing industry new skills are necessary and were 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. We do not currently support visa candidates in the US. Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.
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.
We do not currently support visa candidates in the US.
Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.
Key Skills
- Income Tax
- General Maintenance
- Content Writing
- Flash
- Application Programming
About Company
Bad code is risky business. AI-generated or written by humans, Sonar ensures top-tier code quality & security. Protect your organization from bugs and vulnerabilities that jeopardize customer trust, damage your reputation, and undermine developer experience.
