Manager, Sales Solutions Engineering

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Sonar is seeking a technical leader with a developer/DevSecOps background to guide a high-velocity sales engine. This player/coach role involves leading, hiring, and raising the bar for a team of Solutions Engineers while actively pursuing opportunities alongside the team.

You will own the team's number, mentor colleagues, and ensure credible, engineering-to-ROI conversations with customers across Enterprise accounts.

Qualifications

• Sales-first mindset focused on win rates and velocity.
• Proven background as a Software Developer or DevTools experience, Engineer-to-Engineer credibility.
• Experience in high-velocity environments with multiple active evaluations.
• Coaching experience and ability to lift team performance.
• Ability to translate tech risk into business ROI for stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical solution selling and unblock blockers with repeatable processes.
• Coach team during field calls with actionable feedback.
• Own requisitions end-to-end from screening to closing.
• Maintain pipeline hygiene and forecast accuracy.
• Foster SE-AE partnerships and log engagement in Salesforce.
• Roleplay risk discussions with Lead Engineers to communicate tech risk.

Skills

Sales leadership

Developer background

High-velocity sales

Coaching

Technical storytelling

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Who is Sonar?

Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development. As the leader in AI code verification and governance, 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,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 & 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 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.

The Role:

We need a technical leader with a developer/DevSecOps background who is motivated to lead a team driving a high-velocity sales engine. This is a player/coach role whose time is shared running opportunities in front of customers alongside developing, hiring, and raising the bar for a team of Solutions Engineers doing that same work. You carry the team's number, not a personal one, and you earn credibility with your team by still doing the job yourself.

What You'll do Daily:

• Technical Solution Selling: Proactively removing technical blockers (Security, Architecture, Legal) using standardized, repeatable processes to move the sales process forward, whether the deal is $50K or $500K.

• Coaching in the Field: Riding along on your team's calls and giving feedback specific enough to act on. Not "that went well," but "you spent nine minutes on features the platform lead never asked about." Weekly 1:1s, individual development plans, and honest conversations about where people stand.

• Hiring and Bar-Setting: Owning your requisitions end to end, from screening through technical interview and close. You define what a Sonar SE looks like and you hold that bar, including when the pipeline is thin and the pressure is on to settle.

• Team Goal Attainment: Knowing where every meaningful opportunity in your team's portfolio stands, where it's stuck, and what you're doing about it. Forecast accuracy and pipeline hygiene are yours.

• SE-AE Partnership at Scale: Building the working relationships between your SEs and their AE counterparts and making sure that engagement is visible in Salesforce. If the team is doing the work but not logging it, that's a coaching problem and it's yours to solve.

• Value Engineering: Roleplaying as a peer to Lead Engineers and DevOps Directors to articulate the technical risk of shipping AI-generated code without verification, and teaching your team to run that same conversation.

• Bionic SE Workflows: Leveraging AI to automate the creation of customer-facing content, allowing you to handle a high volume of deals at pace, then turning what works into something the whole team uses.

Experience and Qualificiations:

• The "Sales-First" Mindset: You are driven by win rates and sales velocity; you view a long, un-qualified technical evaluation as a failure, not a project.

• Developer DNA: Proven background as a Software Developer or extensive experience in the Developer Tools (DevTools) space; you can speak "engineer-to-engineer" with credibility, and your team will respect you for it.

• High-Scale Muscle Memory: Experience in a high-velocity environment where you have personally managed a double-digit load of active, concurrent technical evaluations, plus exposure to larger enterprise cycles.

• Coaching Instinct, With or Without the Title: You have formally managed SEs, or you have been the person on the team everyone else learns from. We care more about evidence that people got better because of you than about the size of your last org.

• Technical "Slickness": Professional polish and executive presence; the ability to translate complex code-level issues into business-level ROI for non-technical stakeholders.

• Operational Discipline: A self-driven attitude with a focus on "Standardization over Customization" to keep the revenue engine moving at speed, and comfort making decisions from data rather than gut feel.

• AI Power User: You actively use AI to re-engineer your technical sales workflow, and you teach it. If it can be automated or prompted, you've already done it.

In-office culture

We're intentional about this. We believe the best teams are built in the room together. Three anchor days - Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays - create the collaboration rhythm that makes a hub office worth having.

Candidates need to be genuinely based in the location the role is posted - if that's not where you are today, we're happy to support relocation for the right person.

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 [e-mail].

All offers of employment at Sonar 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.