--- title: 'Major Incident Management at Sonar' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/major-incident-management-sonar-geneva-rq6dc2jcdghv' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-08' --- # Major Incident Management at Sonar - **Company:** Sonar - **Location:** Geneva, Switzerland - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-03-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/sonarsource/d5981b28-b059-4540-a332-c9e29ec044dd ## Job description Who is Sonar? Sonar enables organizations to ship agentic code with confidence. Code creation is abundant, but confidence is scarce. Our core platform, SonarQube, verifies over 750 billion lines of code every day, delivering agentic verification and governance for all code. Trusted by more than 7 million developers and 75% of the Fortune 100, including teams at Nvidia, ServiceNow, Booking.com, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company, Sonar enables organizations to reduce outages, improve security, and lower the cost and risk of agentic software development. Founded in Geneva and now headquartered in Austin, Texas, Sonar has a global team working across offices and hubs, including Silicon Valley, London, Bochum, Barcelona, Singapore, Tokyo, and the Washington, D.C. area. At Sonar, we’re enabling enterprises to build agentic software factories that can move quickly while maintaining the control, consistency and evidence required to ship with confidence. Position description As Manager of Major Incident Management, you will own how Sonar prevents, responds to, and learns from incidents across its critical systems. You will drive the Incident Management, Change Management, and Problem Management programs through a data-driven, risk-based approach — ensuring that prioritization is guided by measurable impact rather than reactive urgency. By building clear operational health metrics and delivering consistent visibility into service reliability, change risk, and systemic patterns, you will give leadership the insight they need to make confident decisions and you will give your team the clarity they need to focus on what matters most. ## What you will do - Lead the Incident, Change, and Problem Management programs end-to-end, applying a risk-based framework to prioritize efforts across the company where they reduce the most organizational risk - Define, maintain, and report on operational health metrics that provide clear, ongoing visibility into service availability, incident trends, change success rates, and residual risk - Deliver regular operational reporting to leadership, surfacing systemic patterns, unresolved follow-ups, and areas of elevated risk with clear recommendations - Coach and develop a team of Major Incident Managers, setting clear expectations for structured incident command, stakeholder communication, and post-incident follow-through - Own the Post-Incident Review process, ensuring blameless, high-quality analysis that turns findings into prioritized problem records and measurable improvements - Own and continuously improve the Change Management process, balancing delivery speed with risk reduction through clear classification, approval, and review standards - Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, and Mission Control to align on risk appetite, reduce time to mitigation, and ensure change governance supports the product roadmap - Use incident, problem, and change data to identify recurring failures, weak controls, and systemic causes — driving prioritization of corrective actions based on strategic impact ## Experience and qualifications - 5-8 years of experience managing teams who deliver Major Incident Management and Problem Management functions within multinational, distributed companies - Proven people management experience leading operational or incident-focused teams (e.g., Incident Managers, SRE, NOC/Command Center) - Track record of defining operational metrics and building reporting that gives leadership clear visibility into operational health and risk - Strong understanding of ITIL or similar service management frameworks (Incident, Problem, and Change Management), applied pragmatically in modern engineering organizations - Demonstrated ability to lead critical incidents under pressure with structure, clarity, and calm decision-making - Experience establishing or maturing post-incident review practices and translating findings into systemic improvements - Familiarity with Atlassian products and ITSM platforms (e.g., Jira Service Management, Confluence, Statuspage) - Experience using or developing AI tooling to enhance correlation, accuracy, and speed for outage resolution and problem management - Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to tailor messages to executives, engineers, and non-technical stakeholders 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 hiring@sonarsource.com. 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. ## About Sonar ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Sonar provides a platform for automated code review that helps developers deliver high-quality, secure software by analyzing code they write, AI-generated code, and third-party code. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $412M raised in 2022 at a $4.7B valuation) - **Headquarters**: Vernier, Geneva, Switzerland (also major offices in Austin, London, Singapore, and others) - **Founded**: 2008 - **Founders**: Freddy Mallet, Simon Brandhof, Olivier Gaudin ## Core Business - Primary industry: Software Development, Code Quality & Security (SAST) - Target customers: B2B, developers, and enterprises (7M+ developers, 21,000+ enterprise customers globally) - Mission: "Transparency and continuous improvement to support our community and make tomorrow's innovations possible." ## Products & Services - **SonarQube (Self-Hosted)**: The flagship on-premises platform for continuous code quality and security inspection, supporting multiple languages and integrating into CI/CD pipelines. - **SonarQube Cloud (SaaS)**: A cloud-based version of the SonarQube platform, free for open-source projects and paid for private projects. - **Sonar Analyzers**: Language-specific rules and analysis engines that detect bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: $4.7 billion (as of April 2022 Series B round) - **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of ~$289M (latest fiscal year); Total funding of $457M (across two rounds) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Insight Partners (lead in 2016), Advent International and General Catalyst (lead in 2022). Customers include Snowflake, Booking.com, Deutsche Bank, AstraZeneca, and Ford. - **Growth Signals**: 726 employees (+24.1% YoY); analyzes 750+ billion lines of code daily; acquired Tidelift (Dec 2024) and AutoCodeRover (Feb 2025); driving toward $1B revenue. ## Competitive Advantages - Trusted verification layer for AI-generated code, providing deterministic, repeatable, and actionable results at scale. - Open-source roots and 17+ years of industry leadership in automated code review. - Integrated code quality and security (SAST) in a single platform, reducing technical debt and complexity. ## Strategic Focus - Expanding go-to-market globally to reach $1B in revenue. - Deepening capabilities for AI code verification and securing the AI coding era. - Growing the platform through acquisitions (Tidelift for package management, AutoCodeRover for AI-powered code remediation). ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Highly committed to each other, customers, and the open-source community; values positivity, dedication, empathy, and passion. - **Work Model**: Hybrid – flexibility to work from home two days a week (Wednesdays and Fridays). Offices in 10 locations across 4 continents. - **Benefits** (varies by country): Generous PTO (25–28 days + seniority days), 401K match (US), healthcare premium coverage (90% employee, 60% dependents in US), pension contributions (Switzerland/UK), commuting subsidies (public transport, parking, cycling). - **Interview Process**: 4 stages – Recruiter Interview, Hiring Manager Interview, Peer/Technical Interview, Cross-Functional Interview. - **Engineering Culture**: Builders behind a platform used by millions; focus on quality, security, and innovation. ## Sources 1. [sonarsource.com](https://www.sonarsource.com/company/about/) – About page 2. [sonarsource.com](https://www.sonarsource.com/company/careers/) – Careers page with benefits and history 3. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/sonarsource) – Company LinkedIn profile (employees, revenue, funding, acquisitions) 4. 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