Senior Security Engineer

What you will do

Secure by design: Partner with product platform and infrastructure engineering teams to design and implement secure solutions.

Security review: Review cloudnetwork and endpoint architectures to ensure security requirements are identified early and integrated effectively.

Cloud security: Help engineering teams improve security across the software development lifecycle cloud environments and supporting services.

Vulnerability management: Investigate security findings validate risk partner with owners on remediation plans and help drive issues to closure.

Security engineering projects: Develop and implement security specific solutions that support Sonar’s strategic security plan including evaluating and introducing new tools and capabilities.

Data Leakage: Drive DLP efforts across the company.

Customer trust support: Investigate and help address customer security concerns related to Sonar products cloud platforms and security controls.

Security incidents: As needed act as a security subject matter expert during investigations containment remediation and post-incident follow-up.

Threat management: Review relevant threat intelligence assess how it applies to Sonar and recommend practical mitigations.

Standards and guidance: Contribute to security patterns engineering guidance and repeatable practices that make the secure path the easiest path for teams.

Experience and qualifications

You can demonstrate strong hands-on experience in security engineering cloud security application security or a closely related discipline.

You can demonstrate in-depth experience with cloud architectures primarily AWS.

You can demonstrate experience reviewing architectures and embedding security requirements into engineering and operational workflows.

You can demonstrate experience assessing and securing modern application environments including AI and agentic AI features.

You can demonstrate experience with vulnerability investigation prioritization and remediation management.

You can demonstrate practical scripting and automation experience using tools such as Python or Bash.

You are comfortable working across technical and non-technical stakeholders and can communicate risk and recommendations clearly.

Experience with SaaS environments. Wiz CrowdStrike and Google Workspace are a plus.

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 [email protected]. 

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the 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.

What We Do

Sonar provides the essential verification layer for the AI-driven development era ensuring all code—whether human-written or AI-generated—is code you can trust.Today AI coding tools are generating explosive volumes of code. This has created an "engineering productivity paradox" : faster code writing doesn't automatically lead to faster safer software delivery. The new bottleneck is verification.Sonar solves this. Integrating code quality and code security into a single platform (SonarQube) Sonar is the foundation for high performance software engineering analyzing over 750 billion lines of code daily to ensure applications are secure reliable and maintainable. As an independent verification platform Sonar enables organizations to securely develop at the speed of AI. We are driven by a deep belief in our people a commitment to excellence and an unwavering dedication to delivery. We operate as a united group where our collective success is the sum of each individual's contributions. Our company culture is driven by the values of CODE: Committed Obsessed Deliberate & Effective. This mindset reflects our culture of creativity collaboration and pride in the work we do. Rooted in the open source community Sonar’s solutions support over 35 programming languages frameworks and infrastructure technologies. Today Sonar is used by 7M+ developers worldwide including ServiceNow Booking.com Deutsche Bank AstraZeneca and Ford Motor Company.Sonar is headquartered in Geneva Switzerland with additional offices in Austin Texas; Bochum Germany; London Singapore and Tokyo. The company is rapidly growing with over 800 employees!Join us in our mission to solve the trillion-dollar challenge of bad code!

Why Work With Us

We are a product-first company with a people-first culture. Every employee has the opportunity to grow and learn. We promote from within provide regular feedback and professional development opportunities value the right to fail along with respect and kindness and work with team members to achieve their full potential.

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