Principal Platform Engineer (Architecture & Enablement)
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Job Location:
Geneva, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
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 Principal Platform Engineer (Architecture & Enablement) you will be the technical catalyst behind our Golden Path strategy turning architectural vision into tangible engineering reality. You will sit at the intersection of our Platform Division and our Product Software Engineers providing them with the autonomy to ship faster and safer. You will design and build the Golden Path enginethe core scaffolding CLI tools and internal portal integrationsthat allows engineering teams to bootstrap production-ready services in minutes not days. You will engineer the foundational software blocks and libraries that solve common backend challenges once enabling product teams to focus on business logic rather than reinventing infrastructure will act as a force multiplier actively identifying friction points in our entire development lifecycle (from IDE to Production) and building the integration glue that eliminates them. You will serve as the R&D arm for the platform prototyping emerging technologies (e.g. coding agents ephemeral environments) to validate their value before scaling them across the organization.
What You Will Do Daily:
- Build the Glue: You wont just design on whiteboards; you will write the high-leverage codewhether its a custom Backstage plugin a specific GitHub Action or a CLI in Go/Pythonthat bridges the gap between our raw infrastructure and the developer experience.
- Experiment & Prototype: You will create Tracer Bullet implementations for new architectural standards proving they work in code before advocating for their adoption across the fleet.
- Engage as an Embedded Expert: You will partner directly with Product Squads not as an auditor but as a co-pilothelping them adopt the Golden Paths and gathering direct feedback to iterate on the platform product.
- Mentorship & Technical Leadership: You will elevate the technical bar of the Platform Engineering division mentoring other engineers on modern software design automation strategies and Platform as a Product thinking.
The Experience You Will Need:
- Principal-Level Builder Mindset: You have 10 years of software engineering experience and still love to code. You are comfortable jumping into a complex Java/Python codebase to refactor a core component or writing a new tool in Go/TypeScript from scratch.
- Cloud Native Architecture Mastery: You possess deep technical expertise in modern infrastructure standards Networking Containers and Kubernetes. You understand how to design distributed systems that fully exploit these platforms (e.g. resilience patterns sidecars ephemeral scaling) rather than just lifting and shifting legacy applications.
- Forward-Looking Innovation (AI & Agents): You have a pulse on the future of software engineering. You are actively exploring how GenAI LLM Agents and intelligent automation can revolutionize the developer experience and you have the curiosity to build the experimental tools that prove it.
- Platform Product Engineering: You treat internal infrastructure as a product but you understand that the best interface is no interface. You have moved beyond building static Service Catalogs (like Backstage) and have experience building CLI-first platforms and IDE-integrated workflows that scale Golden Paths to hundreds of users without forcing them to switch contexts.
- Influence without Authority & Internal Evangelism (DevRel): You combine the empathy of a Developer Advocate with the strategic weight of a Principal Engineer. You drive adoption not by mandate but by winning hearts and mindsmarketing the platforms value building internal communities and acting as the Sales Engineer for the Golden Path
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 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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Design
- Academics
- AutoCAD 3D
- Cafe
- Fabrication
- Java
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.
