HR Operations Specialist

Sonar solves the trillion-dollar challenge of bad code. Sonar equips organizations to achieve and sustain a Clean Code state by empowering developers to write consistent, intentional, adaptable, and responsible code. Clean Code produces software that is maintainable, reliable, and secure, allowing development teams to spend less time fixing issues and more time innovating. With Sonar, and by employing the company’s Clean as You Code methodology, organizations minimize risk, reduce technical debt, increase productivity, and derive more value from their software in a predictable and sustainable way.

Sonar’s open-source and commercial products – SonarLint, SonarCloud, and SonarQube – support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Trusted by more than 500,000 organizations and used by more than 7 million developers globally to clean more than half a trillion lines of code, Sonar is integral to delivering better software.

Why Should I Apply

At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help organizations build responsible, secure, high-quality code quickly and systematically. We create solutions that don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we fix issues at the source – source code, to be specific.

We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, France, 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: provide solutions that deliver Clean Code.

The Impact You Will Have:

A Sonar HR Operations Specialist is the critical engine that enables our global workforce and rapid company scaling. This role transforms complex, multinational labor laws into standardized, automated system controls within our HRIS (BambooHR), ensuring flawless processing, benefits accuracy, and statutory compliance across every region. You will directly own the integrity of our global employee data, mitigate high-risk legal exposure (such as misclassification penalties), and streamline the entire employee lifecycle—from a seamless first day to their final exit. Your work ensures that our entire HR organization can remain strategic and efficient, allowing us to continue our aggressive growth trajectory globally.

On a daily basis, you will

• Process Global Onboarding: Execute the daily, end-to-end digital onboarding workflow for new hires across all countries, ensuring accurate data entry into the HRIS and immediate compliance with local regulatory requirements.
• Audit Data Integrity: Run daily reports to proactively identify and correct errors, inconsistencies, or missing data points (e.g., job titles, organizational hierarchies, or local ID numbers) within the HRIS.
• Support Global Payroll Cycles: Validate data feeds and inputs shared with external payroll vendors and internal teams, ensuring that compensation, bonuses, and deductions are accurate across all international payrolls.
• Resolve Tier 2 Employee Tickets: Address complex, system-related HR inquiries escalated from Tier 1 support (e.g., troubleshooting discrepancies, processing inquiries, correcting historical absence records, or resolving issues).
• Maintain Compliance Documentation: Update and manage the repository of official employment forms, policy acknowledgments, and contractor classification checklists for all operating jurisdictions.
• Coordinate International On and Off-Boarding: Process new hires, terminations and resignations globally, ensuring all pay calculations, system access kick-offs, revocations, and required documents are completed on time and legally compliant.
• Run and Distribute Reports: Generate standardized reports on key metrics (e.g., headcount, turnover, compensation trends) ensuring the data is accurate and correctly filtered by region or department.

The skills you demonstrate

• A minimum of 6 years of experience in a fast paced, technology driven organization.
• Strong familiarity with information systems
• Bachelor’s degree in HR or a related field
• Must have solid organizational skills, accuracy, and attention to detail
• High level of integrity/professionalism in dealing with confidential data
• Experience working in a global environment

Benefits of Working with Sonar:

• 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.
• Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.
• 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.

Why you will love it here

• We value a safe work culture - founded in respect, kindness, and the right to fail.
• We hire great people - we value communication skills as much as technical prowess and we strive to create a work environment that allows for everyone to succeed and feel empowered to do their best work. Our 500+ SonarSourcers from 35 different nationalities can relate!
• Work-life balance - a healthy work-life balance is very important at Sonar.
• Flexible hours - we schedule our days in order to be effective at work, while also being able to enjoy life’s important moments.
• We promote continuous learning - in an ever-changing industry, learning new skills is the key to growth and success! We're happy to support all employees in this journey if desired.

What we do

As Home of Clean Code, Sonar is the ultimate solution to achieving Clean Code for developers and organizations alike.

The company was formed to develop the open-source tool SonarQube, which has since become the go-to standard in code quality management. We strive every day to help developers by tackling the toughest issues head-on and pushing the limits of what’s possible.

Who we are

At Sonar we believe in people, dedication, and innovation. We’re a team of problem solvers who are passionate and relentless in their respective missions. We want to work with people who are ready and willing to fasten their seat belts and be part of an incredible ride!

Our Core Values are: Smarter Together, Excellence, Innovation, and Delivery. They reflect our unique culture and we expect them to help shape and positively strengthen our organization.

If you want to learn more about our culture, check out our blog post.

Join us; we’ll be smarter and stronger together!

Sonar is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to treating every employee with equal respect and fairness. We maintain a zero-tolerance policy toward any form of discrimination. All candidates will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.