Site Reliability Engineering Lead

SonarSource; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

23 days PTO per year

401(k) with 4% match

Parking in downtown Austin

Global workforce & 20+ countries

Annual kickoff events

Monthly catered events

Job summary

SonarSource is hiring in Austin, TX for a senior engineering leadership role focused on Cloud Operations, SRE, and infrastructure. You will guide a cross-disciplinary team to deliver reliable, secure code-review platforms with scale and resilience in production.

Join us to influence architecture, governance, and automation while mentoring engineers and collaborating with product and security teams to reduce toil and improve incident response times.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with a focus on SRE, cloud operations, or infrastructure.
• Deep DevOps/SRE mindset with mission-critical shared services (e.g., Aurora DBs, OpenSearch).
• Advanced knowledge of AWS and infra at organizational scale.
• Experience with IaC and code reviews for infrastructure components.
• Observability patterns and disaster recovery/business continuity planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Cloud Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers to grow autonomy and manage cloud operations.
• Ensure high engineering standards focusing on reliability, performance, and security.
• Oversee operational workload including on-call health, incidents, and automation to reduce toil.
• Foster blameless post-mortems and share architectural insights.
• Collaborate with value streams to meet production platform needs while maintaining governance.
• Communicate a clear vision aligned with platform roadmap emphasizing resiliency and cost optimization.
• Partner with Hiring to recruit engineers and improve the hiring process.
• Lead by example with servant leadership and critical decision-making.

Skills

SRE

Cloud Operations

Infrastructure Eng.

DevOps mindset

Agile methodologies

Tools

Python

AWS CDK

Terraform

OpenSearch

IAM

Job description

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, 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.

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 Austin TX. We are unable to consider candidates unwilling to be in Austin, but we are willing to relocate the right candidate.

Benefits

• Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package.
• We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations. You will receive 23 days of PTO per calendar year (on a pro-rated basis depending on your employment start date), with additional time provided for sickness, life events and holidays
• .We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.
• Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin, Texas.
• 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.
• Monthly catered events, and team events

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.