Site Reliability Engineering Lead

Sonar Source
Austin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Mentorship","Servant leadership","High-stakes decision-making","Continuous improvement","Collaboration"]

Lead a team of Cloud Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers to improve the reliability, performance, and security of SonarQube Cloud and SonarQube Server. Own operational health and incident response, reduce manual toil through automation, and drive blameless post-mortems and observability-driven resilience. Collaborate across value stream squads, align the squad’s vision with the platform roadmap, and partner with the hiring team to recruit and grow talent.

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Site Reliability Engineering Lead

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Job Summary

Lead a team of Cloud Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers to improve the reliability, performance, and security of SonarQube Cloud and SonarQube Server. Own operational health and incident response, reduce manual toil through automation, and drive blameless post-mortems and observability-driven resilience. Collaborate across value stream squads, align the squad’s vision with the platform roadmap, and partner with the hiring team to recruit and grow talent.
Location: Austin
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and manage a team of Engineers (Cloud Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers), providing guidance, support, and mentorship.
  • •Ensure high engineering standards with a focus on system reliability, performance, and security.
  • •Manage operational workload including on-call health, incident response, and automation to reduce manual toil.
  • •Drive a safe culture of feedback and continuous improvement, including blameless post-mortems and sharing architectural insights.
  • •Collaborate across value stream squads to meet production platform needs, aligning the squad’s vision to the platform engineering roadmap and partnering with Hiring.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Paid Leave401kParking

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of software engineering experience with a significant focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering.
  • •Deep understanding of the DevOps/SRE mindset and experience operating mission-critical shared services (e.g., Aurora DBs, OpenSearch, control planes).
  • •Advanced AWS knowledge (or similar providers) and experience managing organizational-scale infrastructure (IAM, OUs, Account Vending).
  • •Infrastructure as Code experience with the coding lifecycle (e.g., Python, CDK, Terraform) and strong code review ability for infrastructure components.
  • •Proven experience defining observability patterns (logging, tracing, metrics) and designing Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity strategies.
Experience:10+ years
Skills:MentorshipServant leadershipHigh-stakes decision-makingContinuous improvementCollaboration
Tech Stack:AWSAurora DBOpenSearchIAMPythonCDKTerraformLoggingTracingMetricsDisaster RecoveryBusiness ContinuityRightsizingSpot instancesReserved Instances

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

Sonar Source
Builds static code analysis and continuous inspection tools (SonarQube, SonarCloud, SonarLint) that identify bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells across multiple languages to help teams improve code quality and maintainability.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland
Founded: 2008
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