Site Reliability Engineering Lead (f/m/d)

United States Digital Space LLC; Bochum; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Pension plan

Paid time off

Transport reimbursement

Annual bonus

Global team

Zusammenfassung

United States Digital Space LLC in Bochum, Germany, seeks a senior engineering leader to guide Cloud Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers, driving reliability, performance, and security across our SonarQube Cloud and Server platforms.

You will mentor teams, uphold high engineering standards, oversee on-call and incident response, and partner with value stream squads to meet developer needs while maintaining governance.

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years of software engineering with a focus on SRE, cloud ops or infrastructure engineering.
• Deep DevOps mindset and experience managing mission-critical shared services.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS and organization-scale infrastructure management.
• Infrastructure as code with Python, CDK, Terraform; able to review infra code.
• Observability and resiliency with disaster recovery planning.
• Agile methods and cloud cost optimization experience.

Aufgaben

• Lead and mentor a team of Cloud Engineers and SREs to scale operations.
• Ensure reliability, performance and security across platforms.
• Oversee on-call, incidents and automate toil reduction.
• Foster blameless post-mortems and share architectural insights.
• Collaborate with value-stream squads to meet developer needs while governing.)

Kenntnisse

SRE

Cloud Operations

Infrastructure Engineering

AWS

DevOps

Tools

Terraform

CDK

Python

Jobbeschreibung

Who is the company?

the company 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 the company 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 & the company 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 a member of one of our engineering teams, you'll be a key player in making SonarQube Cloud and SonarQube Server the best tools for Code Quality and Security, providing new features to deliver high-quality and powerful products and services that help our users write better software.You will have the opportunity to see your features come to life in Production with short iteration loops. While keeping our roadmap and business priorities in mind, you will be able to have a high impact on the software that we own and develop.By joining us you will bring your experience and expertise to help push our product to its next stage of evolution and fulfill the needs of our large user and customer base.

What you will do

• Lead and manage a team of Engineers (Cloud Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers), providing guidance, support, and mentorship to help individuals grow in autonomy and master the complexities of cloud operations.
• Hold yourself and your team accountable to high engineering standards, specifically focusing on system reliability, performance, and security.
• Manage the team’s operational workload, including on-call health, incident response, and the reduction of manual toil through automation.
• Foster a safe culture of feedback and continuous improvement, encouraging the team to conduct blameless post-mortems and share architectural insights.
• Collaborate with other value stream squads to ensure the production platform meets the needs of our developers while maintaining strict governance.
• Communicate a clear vision for the squad that aligns with the platform engineering roadmap, focusing on resiliency, business continuity, and cost optimization.
• Partner with the Hiring team to recruit talented Engineers for the team. Participate in improving the hiring process for the team and ensuring we recruit enough to reach our goals.
• Lead by example, modeling behaviors of servant leadership and high-stakes decision-making.

Experience and qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a significant focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Operational Mindset: Deep understanding of the DevOps/SRE mindset, including experience managing mission‑critical shared services (e.g., Aurora DBs, OpenSearch, Control Planes).
• Cloud Expertise: Advanced knowledge of AWS (or similar providers) and experience managing organizational‑scale infrastructure (IAM, OUs, Account Vending).
• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with the coding lifecycle in an infrastructure context (e.g., Python, CDK, Terraform) and the ability to perform rigorous code reviews for infrastructure components.
• Observability & Resiliency: Proven experience defining observability patterns (logging, tracing, metrics) and designing Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity strategies.
• Agile & FinOps: Experience with Agile methodologies and a strong understanding of cloud cost optimization (Rightsizing, Spot instances, Reserved Instances).

Additional comments

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

Benefits

• Pension Scheme: 1st Pillar (Unterstützungskasse): Automatic, financed by the company, 3% of gross salary, an additional benefit in addition to your salary.
• Pension Scheme:2nd Pillar (bAV): Voluntary, 15% contribution by the company from social security savings.
• We encourage usage of our robust time‑off allocations with 28 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
• the company recognizes holidays on working calendar days. If the holiday date occurs on a Saturday, we will recognize the day on the preceding Friday. If the holiday date occurs on a Sunday, we will recognize the day on the following Monday.
• Public transport reimbursement of 60% for annual subscription.
• Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.
• 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.

Salary range

We value diversity, equity, and inclusion

At the company, 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 .

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

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