Staff Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
Sonar is seeking a Staff Cloud Platform Engineer to design and develop cloud-based solutions on AWS. The role involves migrating existing applications to cloud-native architectures, implementing scalable services, automating operations, and improving service quality. The engineer will work in cross-functional teams, collaborate with other squads, and participate in an on-call rotation for critical system issues. The company emphasizes a strong culture, developer productivity, and continuous improvement.
Must have:
- 5+ years of experience architecting/operating cloud solutions on AWS
- In-depth knowledge of AWS networking
- Proficiency in IaC (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform)
- Experience with Python, Java, C#, or similar
- Experience with Bash or similar scripting language
- Strong DevOps mindset
- Agile environment experience
- Ability to lead projects
- Positive attitude and open-mindedness
- Comfortable with change and complexity
- Self-confident and able to give/receive feedback
- Team player and able to work independently
- Eagerness to learn new technologies
Good to have:
- AWS CDK (preferred IaC tool)
- Experience with CloudFront, CloudWatch, Lambda, EC2, ECS, SNS, SQS, RDS
Perks:
- Flexible comprehensive employee benefits (90% company paid)
- Robust time-off allocations
- 401(k) plan with 4% match (fully vested)
- Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus
- Paid parking in downtown Austin
- Global workforce
- Annual company kick-off event
- Dynamic work culture
- Continuous education support
10 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 member of one of our engineering squads, you will leverage your experience and expertise to design and develop Cloud-based solutions and migrate existing applications to Cloud-native ones. This means implementing massively scalable services, automating all system operations, measuring and continuously improving service quality, and making the lives of other developers easier.
You will play a key role in helping our product reach its next stage of evolution and delight our users and customers.
As part of the role, you will participate in an on-call rotation to provide timely support and address any critical system issues that may arise outside of regular working hours.
What You Will Do Daily:
- Develop, enhance, and operate cloud solutions on AWS with a focus on automation, high performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
- Take part in the definition of novel cloud solution designs and lead their development.
- Work in sprints with other engineers (backend, frontend, SRE, and other CPEs) as part of a cross-functional team to deliver new features into production.
- Collaborate with other squads in Product Development and Mission Control (InfraSec, IST) to ensure solutions fit into the Sonar platform.
- Contribute to your squad’s efforts in the investigation of alarms, SLOs, and incidents to maintain a high quality of service.
The Experience You Will Need:
- 5+ years of experience with architecting, developing, and operating cloud solutions on AWS.
- In-depth knowledge of AWS networking and the following AWS services: CloudFront, CloudWatch, Lambda, EC2, ECS, SNS, SQS, and RDS.
- Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with at least one of the following tools: AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK (preferred), or Terraform.
- Experience with at least one programming language such as Python, Java, C# or similar.
- Experience with at least one scripting language such as Bash or similar.
- Strong DevOps mindset.
- Experience working in an agile environment.
- Taking initiative and having the ability to lead a subject from beginning to end.
- Open-minded and very positive can-do attitude.
- Comfortable in dealing with change and complexity.
- Self-confident enough to challenge the status quo as well as to give and receive feedback.
- Team player but has the ability to work alone.
- Enjoy exploring and learning new technologies.
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:
- Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package that is 90% paid by the company.
- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations.
- 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.
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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