SRE Lead - Cloud Reliability, Team Growth (Austin)

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

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.