VP of Engineering

Geneva, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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Job Summary

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 Goldman Sachs AstraZeneca and Ford Motor on us to provide independent explainable consistent review and governance of their AI-generated code via products like:

SonarQube: The worlds 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 youre 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 companys 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 companys 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 emailprotected.

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.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

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Who is SonarSonar 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...