Site Reliability Engineering Lead (f/m/d)

Who Is Sonar?

Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development. As the leader in AI code review and verification, Sonar solves a critical problem: ensuring that software generated by AI-assisted developers or autonomous agents is reliable, secure, and maintainable, integrating with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and Devin, helping over 75% of the Fortune 100.

Position Description

As a member of one of Sonar's engineering teams, you'll be a key player in making SonarQube Cloud and SonarQube Server the best tools for Code Quality and Security.

What You Will Do

• Lead and manage a team of Engineers (Cloud Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers), providing guidance and mentorship.
• Hold yourself and your team accountable to high engineering standards focused on system reliability, performance, and security.
• Manage the team's operational workload, including on-call health, incident response, and reduction of manual toil through automation.
• Foster a safe culture of feedback and continuous improvement, including blameless post-mortems.
• Communicate a clear vision for the squad aligned with the platform engineering roadmap.

Experience and Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a significant focus on SRE, Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Deep understanding of the DevOps/SRE mindset, managing mission-critical shared services.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS and experience managing organizational-scale infrastructure (IAM, OUs, Account Vending).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Python, CDK, Terraform).
• Proven experience defining observability patterns and designing Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity strategies.

Additional Comments

This role is based in Bochum, Germany. Benefits include a pension scheme financed by Sonar, generous PTO, public transport reimbursement, and a discretionary Company Growth Bonus.