Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Sonar • Austin, TX

67d

About The Position

Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile. We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily. We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly. And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals. At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations.

Requirements

• Deep IaC Expertise: Professional experience provisioning and managing complex infrastructure using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Cloud/Platform Experience: Hands-on experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) or managing large-scale internal/private cloud infrastructure.
• SLO/SLI Implementation: Practical experience defining, measuring, and reporting on Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Logging/Metrics/Tracing Stacks: Proven experience with modern observability platforms for proactive issue identification.
• Networking: Strong understanding of core networking concepts sufficient to debug complex service connectivity and latency issues.
• Automation of Security Controls: Experience implementing security best practices via code, such as automated vulnerability scanning and configuration hardening.
• Identity and Access Management (IAM): Practical experience managing large-scale IAM systems.
• Incident Management: Experience running or contributing to post-incident reviews and prioritizing resulting engineering work.

Responsibilities

• System Health Monitoring, Alert Triaging, and Error Budget Management: Monitor critical security infrastructure and core infrastructure components, maintain dashboards tied to Service Level Objectives (SLOs), triage high-severity alerts, and analyze Error Budget burn rate.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Policy as Code Development: Write, review, and test code to automate deployment, configuration, and security hardening of infrastructure.
• Toil Elimination and Automation of Operational Tasks: Identify and implement automated solutions for manual, repetitive tasks related to security patching, compliance checks, and infrastructure maintenance.
• Security Pipeline and Observability Maintenance: Maintain and enhance DevSecOps security tools integrated into CI/CD pipelines and ensure robust observability systems for infrastructure and security tools.
• Incident Response Engineering and Post-Mortem Action: Participate in on-call rotation, engage in engineering solutions from post-mortems, and improve runbooks into automated actions.

Benefits

• Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package.
• 23 days of PTO per calendar year, with additional time for sickness, life events, and holidays.
• 401(k) plan with a 4% match, fully vested on day one.
• Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.
• Fully paid parking in downtown Austin, Texas.
• Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
• Annual kick-off event to build relationships and goals for the company.
• Monthly catered events and team events.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees