--- title: 'Staff UX Software Engineer at Sonatype' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-ux-software-engineer-sonatype-colombia-nhwmw91d920v' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Staff UX Software Engineer at Sonatype - **Company:** Sonatype - **Location:** Colombia - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-17 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/sonatype/a93e6b3c-6373-4fc5-8bb4-553282dfcd68 ## Job description Sonatype is the software supply chain management company that invented componentized software development and pioneered the software supply chain category. As leaders in the open-source community and the DevSecOps industry, we run the world’s largest repository of Java open-source components—Maven Central. Our groundbreaking, full-spectrum platform empowers customers to rapidly create, deploy, and maintain innovative software at scale, all while aligning directly to their business needs. Trusted by more than 2,000 organizations—including 70% of the Fortune 100—and over 15 million software developers, Sonatype’s tools and guidance help deliver exceptional, secure software. From inventing modern artifact management with Nexus Repository to introducing the world’s only solution that halts malicious open-source malware in its tracks, we’re committed to constant innovation. We leverage AI/ML to give our clients, developers, and the industry complete confidence in the quality, automation, and security of their software. Learn more at www.sonatype.com ## Role Summary Sonatype has evolved how product design works inside a modern engineering organization. We’ve moved beyond static Figma artifacts and are designing in code, co-creating solutions with engineering and PM, and leveraging AI to accelerate iteration and handoff. If you’re a UX Engineer who thrives on understanding complex developer workflows, building real prototypes, and shaping UX with your team (not in an isolated Design bubble), you’ll be right at home here. ## What You Will Do - Core Work - Develop a deep understanding of Sonatype’s multi-product developer platform, personas, and core Jobs To Be Done. - Work closely with PMs and engineers to co-create user flows and experience direction - UX leads the thinking, but the outputs are created and iterated on together, not in isolation. - Map complex IA, developer workflows, permissions models, and multi-product interactions into clear, intuitive experience patterns. - Create user,  product, and system flow diagrams in Miro that reflect real constraints, technical realities, and team input. - Shape conceptual designs and UX architectures for new features and continuous, iterative improvements. - Build coded UX prototypes using Claude Code, VS Code, GitHub workflows, and front-end fundamentals (HTML/CSS/JS/React). - Ensure your prototypes are structured enough that AI tools can generate engineering specs, scope definitions, and implementation requirements directly from your code diffs. - Conduct lightweight, practical research (interviews, surveys, UAT, quick validation) when needed - and know when to proceed without research to keep momentum. - Collaborate early and often to align constraints, scope, design direction, and technical feasibility. ## What You Will Do - Supporting Responsibilities - Facilitate iterative design and exploration sessions with PMs and engineers; guide direction without owning every artifact yourself. - Provide clear, structured UX reviews and guidance across product teams working on related areas. - Coach engineers on UX fundamentals, usability, accessibility, and interaction patterns when it relates to a project - raising the UX baseline across teams. - Contribute high-fidelity coded prototypes that solve customer problems in clear, easy ways while working with our design system and existing user flows - Support the UX Guild’s goal of improving UX quality and alignment across teams without introducing heavy processes. - Help evolve our AI-accelerated design workflows and strengthen our design system alignment. What Success Looks Like - Your prototypes aren’t just illustrative — they behave like real product experiences and provide enough structure for AI tools to generate engineering specs, scope, and implementation requirements directly from your code diffs. - Teams ship better UX because your influence is pragmatic, collaborative, and grounded in technical realities. - You consistently transform complex developer and AppSec workflows into clear, coherent experiences. - You make smart calls about when to research and when to ship. - You adapt fluidly to evolving tools, processes, and AI-assisted workflows. - You communicate clearly with engineers, PMs, and stakeholders - zooming in or out as needed. ## What We Are Looking For ## Experience & Background - Significant experience designing enterprise software or developer platforms (typically 10–15+ years), with the maturity to influence across multiple product teams. - Experience collaborating deeply with engineers; hybrid UX/engineering backgrounds are a strong plus. Research Judgment - Skilled at lightweight research (interviews, surveys, usability tests, UAT). - Able to choose the right level of research for the moment — avoiding slow, academic processes. Technical Fluency You don’t need to be a full-stack engineer, but you must be comfortable building working UX prototypes: - HTML/CSS/JavaScript - React familiarity - GitHub, version control - IDE + AI code editor pairings - Strong interest in expanding your code prototyping skills and leveraging AI to accelerate them Core Strengths - Strong UX judgment, especially in complex technical domains. - Ability to simplify aggressively within real constraints. - Collaborative, positive, and non-defensive - thrives in evolving workflows. - Clear communicator who works well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - AI Mindset: Curious, experimental, and excited to incorporate AI into design workflows. Comfortable using AI for structure, exploration, prototyping, and iteration. - Fluency in English - verbal and written communications This Role Is Not For You If… - Your first instinct is to open Figma to figure out what the team should build. - You prefer long discovery cycles, polished spec packages, or designing every state before engineering begins. - Code-based prototyping feels uncomfortable or outside your identity as a designer. You want to “own UX” rather than collaborate with engineers who share UX responsibility. - You need structured process, predictable phases, or linear design workflows. You feel frustrated by changing tools, evolving methods, or AI-assisted workflows. ## Why Join Sonatype - Influence UX across a multi-product developer platform used at massive scale. - Prototype in real code environments and shape the future of design/engineering collaboration. - Help refine an AI-accelerated design workflow that’s growing and evolving quickly. - Work at a company that genuinely cares about better user experiences - Contribute to a collaborative UX Guild culture focused on quality, not ceremony. - Solve deep, technical UX challenges - not marketing flows or surface-level UI. If you’re a UX Designer or UX Engineer who thinks in systems, builds in code, collaborates closely with engineers, and gets energy from evolving how design is done - this is the role for you. ## #LI-AL1 ## About Sonatype ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Sonatype provides secure software development solutions that help organizations control open source components, containers, and AI models across the software supply chain. - **Entity Type**: Private (backed by Vista Equity Partners; total funding $154.7M) - **Headquarters**: Fulton, Maryland, United States - **Founded**: 2008 - **Founders**: Not publicly available (originated from core contributors to Apache Maven) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Software Supply Chain Security / DevSecOps - **Target customers**: Enterprise engineering teams, DevOps organizations, and developers (B2B) - **Mission or purpose**: Help organizations continuously harness the benefits of open source without risk, by providing intelligence and automation to secure the AI SDLC. ## Products & Services - **Sonatype Nexus Repository**: The world’s most popular repository manager for storing and managing open source components, containers, and models. - **Sonatype Repository Firewall**: Blocks dangerous components and AI models before they enter the development pipeline. - **Sonatype Lifecycle**: Automates open source security and license policy enforcement across the SDLC. - **Sonatype SBOM Manager**: Generates and manages Software Bill of Materials for compliance and supply chain visibility. - **Maven Central**: The largest public repository of open source Java components, operated by Sonatype. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue $57.1M (latest fiscal year); Total Funding $154.7M - **Notable Investors**: TPG (lead, $80M PE round), Accel, Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, New Enterprise Associates, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners - **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 421 employees (+7.6% YoY); named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security; global presence across 15 countries including US, UK, India, Colombia, Canada. ## Competitive Advantages - **Unmatched OSS intelligence**: Operates both a leading repository (Nexus Repository) and a public registry (Maven Central), providing unique visibility into open source quality. - **AI-native security**: Acts as a control plane for AI-generated code and models, enabling safe adoption of frontier AI. - **Developer-first approach**: Solutions designed by developers for developers, with 50+ supported languages, formats, and integrations. - **High precision**: Fewer false positives/negatives, reducing remediation time and enabling 3x faster releases. ## Strategic Focus - Extending leadership in software supply chain security, particularly addressing risks from AI-generated code and accelerated vulnerability discovery. - Expanding Nexus platform capabilities with agentic-first development and deeper SBOM lifecycle management. - Growing customer adoption through federal sales and enterprise customer success. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values trust through transparency, inclusion, boldness, and growth. Employee resource groups like Women at Sonatype and the Community, Belonging, Inclusion & Diversity cohort. - **Remote-first**: Distributed workforce with offices in Fulton MD, Tysons Corner VA, Alameda CA, London, and Sydney. Flexible work schedules. - **Benefits**: Competitive benefits, annual wellness week, paid volunteer time off, full parental leave (birth or adoption), learning & development support, leadership coaching. - **Onboarding**: New hires build community from day 1 with cross-team learning and interactive onboarding. - **Work-life balance**: Rated 3.8/5 on work-life balance by employees (263 reviews). Performance-based culture with recognition and growth opportunities. ## Sources 1. [sonatype.com](https://www.sonatype.com/) – Company overview and product info 2. [sonatype.com/company/careers](https://www.sonatype.com/company/careers) – Careers page with values, benefits, DE&I 3. [linkedin.com/company/sonatype](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sonatype) – Employee count, revenue, funding, reviews 4. [topworkplaces.com](https://topworkplaces.com/company/sonatype-inc/) – Work culture and distributed workforce details 5. 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