VP of Engineering

People & Cultural Leadership

• Team Scaling & Talent Management: Drive the recruitment, hiring, and retention strategy to build a world-class, diverse engineering organization capable of scaling with the platform.
• Leadership Development: Mentor and manage senior engineering leaders (Directors, Managers), empowering them to lead their own teams effectively.
• Culture Definition: Define, foster, and protect a high-performance engineering culture that prizes technical excellence, developer empathy, ownership, and rapid iteration.

Technical & Strategic Vision

• Technical Strategy: Own the long-term technical vision and architectural roadmap, ensuring the platform remains scalable, reliable, and secure across our On-Prem offering, SonarQube Server (SQS), and SonarQube Cloud, our multi-region/multi-tenant SaaS offering, while continuously evolving our analyzers.
• Developer Ecosystem Expertise: Maintain a deep understanding of the developer landscape (CI/CD pipelines, IDEs, new languages, static analysis trends) to guide product and technical strategy.
• Innovation & R&D: Champion research and development efforts, evaluating new technologies and methodologies to keep the product suite at the forefront of the developer tools market.
• "Dogfooding" Evangelism: Mandate and promote the internal use of the company's own code quality and security tools to drive product improvements and demonstrate technical credibility.

Execution & Delivery

• SaaS Operations & Reliability: Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the capabilities deployed across our products, SQS & SQC, owning incident response and resolution of RCA outcomes.
• SDLC Optimization: Continuously refine and scale the software development lifecycle (SDLC), optimizing for high-velocity, high-quality releases through robust CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Quality & Security Standards: Set and enforce rigorous standards for engineering quality, testing, and application security across all product development (we have a strong recommendation for the right tool to help with that).
• Engineering Metrics: Define and track key engineering metrics (e.g., deployment frequency, lead time for changes, MTTR, platform uptime) to measure and improve team effectiveness.

Cross-Functional & Business Alignment

• C-Suite Partnership: Serve as part of the primary engineering owners to the C-suite (especially the CEO, CPO, and CTO), translating company-level business goals into a concrete, executable engineering roadmap.
• Product Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Product Management to balance technical debt, feature development, and platform infrastructure needs, ensuring predictable delivery against the roadmap.
• Technical Evangelism: Act as a key technical spokesperson for the company, engaging with strategic customers, partners, and the broader developer community.
• Domain ownership: Spearhead the company's Engineering function - encompassing our domains across Code Orchestration, Code Quality and Onboarding.

Experience and qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in the engineering domain, with at least 8+ years in an international leadership capacity managing high performing teams of Managers and Engineers in a fast paced technical environment.
• A proven track record of delivering in a product focused organization with large-scale deployment to primarily B2B customers with significant, measurable business impacts (e.g., revenue growth, cost savings, enhanced user engagement).
• Deep technical expertise in multi-region Saas platform delivery, ideally with experience of on-prem applications. Owning the management of both technical and product roadmap alignments, able to land technical decisions with help of architecture to ensure long-term resilient implementations with low total cost of ownership.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to articulate a compelling vision for the Engineering Division and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear and measurable business value for an executive audience.
• Visionary leadership skills with the proven ability to recruit, mentor, and inspire a multi-disciplinary team of world-class engineers and analysts, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and intellectual curiosity.
• Ability to be flexible and open to change and collaborate across a broad range of engineering disciplines and backgrounds.
• Be motivated by the pace of delivery in an organization with over 30% growth and a broad scale of customers across multiple industries and geographies where scaling and expanding is a continuous demand.

Additional comments

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

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 [email protected]. 

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the 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.