Senior Platform Engineer-Developer Experience

Summary

Join Sonar's Engineering Experience squad as a Platform Engineer and play a key role in enhancing developer productivity. You will design, build, and maintain core CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling, working closely with engineering teams to improve automation, security, and developer productivity. Daily tasks involve owning and enhancing CI/CD pipelines, empowering developers with self-service tools, measuring and improving developer experience, advocating best practices, securing the software supply chain, automating infrastructure, collaborating on standardized processes, and scaling AWS infrastructure. You'll demonstrate strong DevOps, CI/CD, and automation skills in cloud environments, programming expertise, and knowledge of AWS, Terraform, and CDK. The role requires a security-first mindset and experience with various tools and technologies. Sonar offers a dynamic culture, work-life balance with a flexible hybrid work policy, and opportunities for growth and development.

Requirements

• Strong experience in DevOps, CI/CD, and automation in cloud environments
• Strong programming skills in both statically typed (e.g., Java) and dynamically typed (e.g., Python) languages, complemented by expertise in Shell scripting (e.g., Bash)
• Deep knowledge of AWS, HashiCorp Terraform, and AWS CDK
• Hands-on experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, and build tools (Maven, Gradle, NPM, Yarn, MSBuild…)
• Expertise in containerization technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, and EKS
• Strong experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration as Code (CaC), and Everything as Code principles
• Security-first mindset, with experience in securing CI/CD pipelines and secrets management
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog
• Autonomous, pragmatic, and results-driven, with a focus on execution
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills, driving engineering-wide initiatives
• Effective communicator, engaging with developers and stakeholders to drive adoption
• Open-minded and adaptable, comfortable navigating complexity and change
• Challenger of the status quo, continuously improving processes and tooling
• Bias toward action, prioritizing progress over perfection

Responsibilities

• Own and enhance our CI/CD pipelines, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and efficient
• Empower developers with self-service tools, reducing friction in the development process
• Measure and improve developer experience using data-driven insights and key performance metrics
• Advocate and educate, showcasing demos and best practices to keep teams informed
• Secure the software supply chain, ensuring industry standard compliance and reducing security risks
• Automate infrastructure and pipeline configurations to reduce drift and improve reliability
• Collaborate with teams to establish standardized deployment and release processes
• Scale and optimize Sonar’s AWS Infrastructure: Self-hosted runners, CI tooling, and secrets management
• Lead cross-team collaboration, driving initiatives that improve engineering workflows

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Sonar products and Renovate

Benefits

• 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!). We believe that the best idea wins and everyone has a voice
• We believe that great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly and laid-back while still being passionate leaders in our domains. Our 550+ SonarSourcers from 33 different nationalities can relate!
• We embrace work-life balance. It is important to maintain a healthy work-life balance. This is why we have a flexible work policy that includes remote and in-office hybrid work (minimum three days a week in the office - Monday/Tuesday/Thursday)
• We have a growth mindset. We love to learn and believe that continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are a must, and we're happy to help our team acquire them