Offensive Security Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
Sonar is a company focused on preventing code quality and security issues, enhancing developer productivity with AI assistants, and improving developer experience. They analyze code across over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies, serving over 7 million developers and 400,000 organizations worldwide. Sonar emphasizes a culture of commitment, obsession, deliberation, and effectiveness, operating as 'One Team'. They are looking for an Offensive Security Engineer to join their Information Security team. This role involves ensuring the security of products and cloud platforms, collaborating with engineering teams on secure design and implementation, conducting security reviews and penetration testing, investigating security issues, and reviewing cloud configurations and code. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with cloud architectures (GCP, AWS), application security assessments, AI security, threat modeling, penetration testing, vulnerability management, cloud network security, and scripting languages like Python. Familiarity with Azure and Google Workspace is a plus.
Must have:
- Experience with cloud architectures (GCP, AWS)
- Application security assessments (authN, authZ)
- AI Security experience
- Threat modeling (STRIDE)
- Pen testing/red team experience
- Vulnerability investigation/management
- Cloud network/firewall policy management
- Coding/scripting (Python)
- Curious and friendly personality
- Team player, sharing knowledge
- Problem identification and articulation skills
- Experience with cross-team projects
- Fluent in English (written/spoken)
Good to have:
- Familiarity with Azure platform
- Google Workspace experience
Perks:
- Pension Scheme (1st and 2nd Pillar)
- Public transport reimbursement
- 28 PTO days (plus additional based on seniority)
- Discretionary Company Growth Bonus
- Global workforce with diverse nationalities
- Annual global kick-off events
5 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:
The primary goal of the Information Security team is to build trust with our rapidly growing customer base by ensuring the security of our products and demonstrating that our organization meets stringent security standards.
As a member of the team, you will work with the engineering teams to ensure products and cloud platforms are designed, built, and maintained to Sonar’s high security standards and assist them through constant improvement. You will also ensure endpoints are fully secure and meet our engineers' needs while procuring and deploying new solutions. You will investigate and resolve security issues raised with our team. As part of a team-based organization, your contributions will significantly impact the growth of our business through Sonar’s “collective intelligence” mindset.
What You Will Do Daily:
- Develop and implement security initiatives delivered through the strategic security plan.
- Procure, design, and implement new security tools and features.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to design and implement secure product solutions.
- Conduct internal and external security reviews, pen testing, and red team exercises.
- Investigate and resolve security issues in products and internal systems.
- Review engineering product architecture and solutions to ensure integration of security requirements.
- Review cloud configuration and perform code reviews.
- Investigate and manage customer security concerns.
- Review threat intelligence findings and analyse threat landscapes.
The Experience You Will Need:
- Extensive experience with cloud architectures (GCP and AWS).
- Experience with application security assessments including authN and authZ.
- Experience with AI Security.
- Experience with threat modeling using frameworks like STRIDE.
- Experience with pen testing, red team engagements and bug bounty programs.
- Experience with vulnerability investigation and management.
- Experience with cloud network and firewall policy management.
- Experience with coding and scripting such as Python.
- Familiarity with Azure platform and Google Workspace experience are a plus.
- You are a curious person by nature
- You are a friendly, enthusiastic, and an organized team player.
- You actively share your knowledge and give and receive feedback, to improve the team and yourself.
- Ability to clearly identify the problem to be solved and articulate it before working on the solutions.
- You have experience working on cross-team projects across a global organization.
- You are fluent in Written and spoken English.
Why You Will Love It Here:
- 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.
Benefits of Working With Sonar:
- Pension Scheme: 1st Pillar (Unterstützungskasse): Automatic, financed by Sonar, 3% of gross salary.
- Pension Scheme: 2nd Pillar (bAV): Voluntary, 15% contribution by Sonar from social security savings.
- Public transport reimbursement of 60% for annual subscription.
- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 28 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
- Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.
- 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.
Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.
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