Engineering Manager - Cloud Platform & Operations

About the role

Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development. As the leader in AI code review and verification, we solve a critical problem: ensuring that software generated by AI-assisted developers or autonomous agents is reliable, secure, and maintainable. We are looking for a key player to join one of our engineering teams to make SonarQube Cloud and SonarQube Server the best tools for Code Quality and Security.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of Engineers (Cloud Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers), providing guidance, support, and mentorship to help individuals grow in autonomy and master the complexities of cloud operations.
• Hold yourself and your team accountable to high engineering standards, specifically focusing on system reliability, performance, and security.
• Manage the team’s operational workload, including on-call health, incident response, and the reduction of manual toil through automation.
• Foster a safe culture of feedback and continuous improvement, encouraging the team to conduct blameless post-mortems and share architectural insights.
• Collaborate with other value stream squads to ensure the production platform meets the needs of our developers while maintaining strict governance.
• Communicate a clear vision for the squad that aligns with the platform engineering roadmap, focusing on resiliency, business continuity, and cost optimization.
• Partner with the Hiring team to recruit talented Engineers for the team.
• Lead by example, modeling behaviors of servant leadership and high-stakes decision-making.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a significant focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Operational Mindset: Deep understanding of the DevOps/SRE mindset, including experience managing mission-critical shared services.
• Cloud Expertise: Advanced knowledge of AWS (or similar providers) and experience managing organizational-scale infrastructure.
• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with the coding lifecycle in an infrastructure context and the ability to perform rigorous code reviews for infrastructure components.
• Observability & Resiliency: Proven experience defining observability patterns and designing Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity strategies.
• Agile & FinOps: Experience with Agile methodologies and a strong understanding of cloud cost optimization.

Qualifications

This role is based in Bochum, Germany. We are unable to consider candidates unwilling to be in Bochum, but we are willing to relocate the right candidate.

Benefits

• Pension Scheme: 1st Pillar (Unterstützungskasse): Automatic, financed by Sonar, 3% of gross salary, an additional benefit in addition to your salary.
• Pension Scheme: 2nd Pillar (bAV): Voluntary, 15% contribution by Sonar from social security savings.
• 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.
• Public transport reimbursement of 60% for annual subscription.
• Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.

Pay

Salary range €105,000 - €160,000 a year

Schedule

We recognize holidays on working calendar days. If the holiday date occurs on a Saturday, we will recognize the day on the preceding Friday. If the holiday date occurs on a Sunday, we will recognize the day on the following Monday.