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title: 'Sales Solutions Engineer - EMEA at Sonar'
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# Sales Solutions Engineer - EMEA at Sonar

- **Company:** Sonar
- **Location:** Bochum, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/sonarsource/566ee943-0cc9-4f7a-bfc8-d3ff07ecc6ee

## Job description

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.

The Sonar Solutions Engineering team is dedicated to helping our prospective customers achieve technical success with our products. This is your chance to join a growing team as we scale up our efforts to have maximum impact on our targeted customer base.

As a Solutions Engineer at Sonar, you’ll play a central role in providing deep technical expertise to our prospects and supporting them in evaluating our solution. The SE team works as part of the Sales process and also engages with Marketing, Product Management, and Development teams to provide feedback on our products' evolution and messaging.

## What you will do daily

- Help prospective customers understand how our AC/DC approach fits within their software development life cycle
- Drive technical aspects of pre-sales business opportunities by doing technical presentations and demonstrations and supporting product evaluations
- Advise customers on the best alignment of the Sonar solution with their favored deployment strategy
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical problems encountered by prospective customers evaluating our products
- Go beyond the sale to ensure successful product adoption and growth following purchase, working with our Customer Success and Support teams
- Help existing customers understand the additional capabilities of advanced product editions
- Provide technical enablement to channel partners to raise their level of service

## Experience and qualifications

- Some practical experience in software development or DevOps engineering highly desirable
- Familiarity of both local and cloud-based software deployment platforms and technologies, including Linux, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure
- Passion for technology and successful customer outcomes
- Ability to dive into complex technical problems, perform troubleshooting, develop solutions, and articulate them in verbal and written form
- Proven ability to work in a team, receiving and giving feedback as well as sharing knowledge
- A can-do attitude: challenging the status quo, leading and contributing to key improvements and innovations
- Excellent presentation skills
- Excellent English, verbal/written communication skills
- German language is desirable but not a hard requirement.

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 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. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/sonarsource) – Open positions (Lever careers page)

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