Developer Advocate
Job Summary
Job Description
Sonar is seeking a Developer Advocate to prevent code quality and security issues from reaching production, enhance developer productivity with AI assistants, and improve developer experience through streamlined workflows. The role involves analyzing all code to create more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. As a public voice for Sonar, you will be a thought leader in code quality, educating developers through various channels like blogs, podcasts, videos, and speaking at conferences. You will also collaborate with internal teams, including product management and sales engineers, to provide community feedback and advocate for code quality and security best practices. The ideal candidate has 10+ years of experience as a technologist and a strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle and DevOps principles.
Must have:
- 10+ years as a technologist (developer advocate, evangelist, solution architect, software engineer)
- Solid understanding of SDLC, DevOps, and CI/CD
- Passion for designing, writing, and delivering high-quality software
- Strong experience in Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, or C#
- Excellent communication skills with technical audiences in English
- Collaborative DNA, highly autonomous, and pragmatic
Good to have:
- Computer science degree or equivalent experience
- Experience presenting software engineering subjects to technical audiences
- Demonstrated technical writing experience
- Track record of accepted conference speaking abstracts
- Growing social media following (Twitter, GitHub, Medium, YouTube, LinkedIn)
- Open-minded with a positive can-do attitude
- Comfortable with change, complexity, and uncertainty
- Self-confident and receptive to feedback
- Leadership qualities
Perks:
- Dynamic culture valuing respect and kindness
- Embraces the right to fail
- Focus on people skills alongside technical skills
- Flexible work policy (3 days in-office, 2 days remote for some locations)
- Growth mindset with support for continuous education
- Competitive products and services
- Transparency through regular meetings and updates
- Robust time-off allocations (27 PTO days in Geneva)
- Pension contributions (60% of total cost)
- Savings contributions (13.5% to 15.5% of base salary)
- Risk contribution (2%)
- Generous discretionary company growth bonus
- Sustainable mobility options for commuting (60% refund on transportation subscription)
- Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries
- Annual global kick-off event
9 skills required
Job Details
Who is Sonar?
Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.
We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily.
We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.
And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.
At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations.
Why You Should Apply:
At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.
We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.
The Impact You Will Have:
As a Developer Advocate, you join a team of talented Product people and Developer Advocates who are passionate about code quality and security by reaching and educating developers across their preferred forums. As one of Sonar's public voices and faces, you are the thought leader for code quality in your community, helping fellow developers write better, more secure code.
What You Will Do Daily:
- Engage and build mindshare with developers across our community through thought leadership and tactical content around Software Engineering best practices, Software Development Lifecycle best practices, Software Quality, and testing
- Strengthen collaboration with communities, forums, and projects by establishing integrations or other modes of deep alignment
- Create compelling technical content delivered as blogs, podcasts, webinars, videos, quickstarts, tutorials, and articles
- Develop unique demos in conjunction with vendors and partners in the ecosystem
- Host meetups, orchestrate workshops, and speak at conferences and events
- Promote and drive attendance for company-hosted developer events and webinars
- Establish relationships and reach with technology communities and organizations
- Work closely with the teams at Sonar who deal with programming languages, development workflows, and best practices to have an impact on the team's short and long-term objectives
- Work closely with the Product Manager group to provide feedback on our products from the community
- Partner with sales engineers and product marketers to advocate for code quality and security in diverse forums
- Collaborate with community managers and other advocates to enhance ecosystem engagement
- Leverage social media presence to amplify the Sonar brand within the developer community
- 10+ years as a technologist in one or more of the following roles: developer advocate, evangelist, solution architect, software engineer
- Computer science degree or equivalent experience
- Solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle, DevOps functions, and CI/CD
- Passionate about Designing, Writing, and Delivering High Quality Software
- Solid understanding of the impact and management of Technical Debt within an SDLC
- Prior experience presenting Software Engineering related subjects to technical audiences
- Strong proven experience in one or more of the following programming languages: Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, or C#
- Demonstrated experience in technical writing in blogs, articles, or tutorials
- Track record of success getting speaking abstracts accepted into technical conferences
- Growing following on social media platforms including Twitter, GitHub, Medium, YouTube, LinkedIn
- Exceptional communication skills with technical audiences using the English language
- A collaborative DNA
- Highly autonomous and pragmatic
- Open-minded and very positive can-do attitude
- Comfortable in dealing with change, complexity, and uncertainty
- Self-confident enough to challenge the status quo as well as to receive feedback
- Leadership: you take initiative and demonstrate your ability to lead a subject from beginning to end
- Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!).
- Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains.
- We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
- We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
- As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
- We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.
- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 27 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
- We contribute 60% of the total cost for your pension; 13.5% to 15.5% of your base salary for savings; 2% for risk.
- Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.
- Commuting:Sustainable mobility options, including carpooling and the refund of 60% of the annual transportation subscription.
- 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.
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.
All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise 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.
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