Staff Data Engineer

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📍 GenevaEmployee / Full Time
Data & Agentic

About this role

Who is Sonar?

Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development. As the leader in AI code verification and governance, we solve a critical problem: ensuring that software generated by AI-assisted developers or autonomous agents is reliable, secure, and maintainable.

Integrating seamlessly with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and Devin, we help over 75% of the Fortune 100 build trusted, reliable, compliant software. Customers who use Sonar are 44% less likely to report an outage due to AI-generated code.

We believe code verification is the critical missing link in the Agent-Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC). Industry giants like Nvidia, ServiceNow, Booking.com, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company count on us to provide independent, explainable, consistent review and governance of their AI-generated code via products like:

  • SonarQube: The world’s leading AI code review and verification platform.
  • SonarQube Foundation Agent: Currently topping the leaderboards for agentic software repair.
  • SonarSweep & Sonar Context Augmentation: Providing the enterprise-grade context and constraints agents need to be truly effective.

Our team operates across global hubs in Austin, Bochum, Dubai, Geneva, London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington D.C. We move with a mindset we call CODE:

  • Committed to our customers and community.
  • Obsessed with quality.
  • Deliberate in our decisions.
  • Effective as one team.

With over $400M in revenue and profitable, fast-paced growth, we are building the backbone of the AI software revolution. If you’re hungry to have an impact, want to build at a fast pace, and ready to work at the forefront of AI, we want to hear from you.


Position description:

 

We want to make the best decisions possible for our products and to do that, we need to make data-driven decisions.

To achieve this goal, we are looking for a talented Data Engineer - you! - to join the Data & ML Platform team.

Together, we will make Sonar’s products the undisputed world-leading code remediation solution!

 

What you will do

You will design and develop the data platform to support the functional domains in handling their data and help them in their journey to data ownership. This means:

  • Design and implement data storage, transformation, and load capabilities of our pipelines.
  • Continuously enhance the data platform. Propose, implement and manage data handling services according to  stakeholders needs (Product Managers, Marketing, Sales, engineering teams, ...)
  • Establish top-class end-to-end pipelines including data cleaning and modelling.
  • Develop and deploy connectors to data sources of interest.
  • Maintain evergreen data flow documentation across systems.
  • Collaborate on Data Governance with other stakeholders/domains.
  • Work with the security function to ensure we adhere to expected security standards.
  • Collaborate with the incident manager to bring your expertise when asked and own implementation of recommendations from post-mortems.

  • Experience and qualifications
  • You have solid software engineering experience, focusing on developing data engineering pipelines and storage in the cloud. You have been exposed to big data architecture essentials, streaming, ETL batches, data store administration, …

  • You see yourself as a developer working on data. You are motivated by both technical and functional aspects of services.

  • You are a friendly, enthusiastic, and organized team player. You actively share your knowledge and give and receive feedback to improve the team and yourself.

  • Strong experience building end-to-end ETLT, ETL, or ELT pipelines with batch or streaming technologies in Python.

  • Experience working with Databricks as a Platform or building data pipelines with PySpark is a plus.

  • Strong experience with the AWS platform including, but not limited to, services such as: Glue, RedShift, CloudFormation, S3, CloudWatch, Lambdas, etc… or equivalents

  • Good knowledge of data engineering concepts (Data Lake, Data Warehouse, etc…)

  • Experience with Infrastructure as code tools (CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform)

  • You are fluent in English, both written and spoken

  • 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!). 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. We prioritize Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: At Sonar, we are a global workforce and recognize the value of different backgrounds, and global cultures. We are committed to creating a diverse work environment and are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, colour, 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 clear results of a comprehensive background check conducted prior to the start date. Please note that applications submitted through agencies or third-party recruiters will not be considered.
     
    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!). 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.
     
     
    We prioritize Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
     
    At Sonar, we are a global workforce and recognize the value of different backgrounds, and global cultures.
     
    We are committed to creating a diverse work environment and are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, colour, 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 clear results of a comprehensive background check conducted prior to the start date.
     
    Please note that applications submitted through agencies or third-party recruiters will not be considered.

    In-office culture

    We're intentional about this. We believe the best teams are built in the room together. Three anchor days — Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays — create the collaboration rhythm that makes a hub office worth having. 

    Candidates need to be genuinely based in the location the role is posted  — if that's not where you are today, we're happy to support relocation for the right person.

     

    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.

    If you need any accommodation, please reach out to us at All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the 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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