Senior Security Engineer

Sonar • Austin, TX

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development. As the leader in AI code review and verification, 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. As a Senior Security Engineer in Austin, you will provide senior-level expertise to leadership, engineering, and Go-To-Market teams while assisting with incident response when necessary. Your primary focus will be partnering with infrastructure and product teams to implement secure-by-design architecture, practical security automation, and advanced vulnerability management.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience in security engineering, cloud security, application security, or a closely related discipline.
• In-depth experience with cloud architectures, primarily AWS.
• Experience reviewing architectures and embedding security requirements into engineering and operational workflows.
• Experience assessing and securing modern application environments, including AI and agentic AI features.
• Experience with vulnerability investigation, prioritization, and remediation management.
• Practical scripting and automation experience using tools such as Python or Bash.
• Comfortable working across technical and non-technical stakeholders and can communicate risk and recommendations clearly.
• Experience with SaaS environments.

Nice To Haves

• Wiz, CrowdStrike, and Google Workspace are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product, platform, and infrastructure engineering teams to design and implement secure solutions.
• Review cloud, network and endpoint architectures to ensure security requirements are identified early and integrated effectively.
• Help engineering teams improve security across the software development lifecycle, cloud environments, and supporting services.
• Investigate security findings, validate risk, partner with owners on remediation plans, and help drive issues to closure.
• Develop and implement security specific solutions that support Sonar’s strategic security plan, including evaluating and introducing new tools and capabilities.
• Drive DLP efforts across the company.
• Investigate and help address customer security concerns related to Sonar products, cloud platforms, and security controls.
• As needed, act as a security subject matter expert during investigations, containment, remediation, and post-incident follow-up.
• Review relevant threat intelligence, assess how it applies to Sonar, and recommend practical mitigations.
• Contribute to security patterns, engineering guidance, and repeatable practices that make the secure path the easiest path for teams.

Benefits

• Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package.
• 23 days of PTO per calendar year (on a pro-rated basis depending on your employment start date), with additional time provided for sickness, life events and holidays.
• An exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.
• Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin, Texas.
• Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
• Annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
• Monthly catered events, and team events.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed