{"active":true,"apply_url":"https://jobs.lever.co/sonarsource/65c2b725-2cda-458d-993a-8cb25a57947d/apply","company":{"claimed":false,"name":"Sonar","slug":"sonarsource","website":"https://www.sonarsource.com"},"countries":["US"],"employment_type":"full-time","first_seen_at":"2026-10-28T13:00:09Z","getwork_url":"https://getwork.dev/jobs/lv-sonarsource-65c2b725-2cda-458d-993a-8cb25a57947d/","id":"lv-sonarsource-65c2b725-2cda-458d-993a-8cb25a57947d","injection_flag":false,"last_seen_at":"2026-10-28T18:45:09Z","location":"Austin, Texas","published_at":"2026-09-01T13:42:14Z","regions":["north_america"],"remote":"onsite","role_family":"security","salary":null,"seniority":"unspecified","stack":["aws"],"stack_mentioned":["gcp","azure"],"title":"Application Security Engineer","untrusted_description":"Who is Sonar?\nSonar 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.\nIntegrating 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.\nWe 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:\nSonarQube: The world’s leading AI code review and verification platform.\nSonarQube Foundation Agent: Currently topping the leaderboards for agentic software repair.\nSonarSweep & Sonar Context Augmentation: Providing the enterprise-grade context and constraints agents need to be truly effective.\nOur 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:\nCommitted to our customers and community.\nObsessed with quality.\nDeliberate in our decisions.\nEffective as one team.\nWith 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.\nPosition description\n\nThe primary goal of the Information Security team is to build trust with our rapidly growing customer base by ensuring the Sonar organization meets a high level of security to protect our customers. As a member of the Information Security team, you will be based in Sonar’s Austin office leading the Security Governance and Customer Trust domains of our security risk management program. You will also support security incidents from time to time as needed. Your positive contributions will significantly impact the growth of the business through Sonar’s “collective intelligence” mindset.\n\nWhat you will do\n-\nShape secure products and cloud architecture\n\n-\nPartner with product and engineering teams from the earliest design stages to build secure, resilient solutions by design.\n\n-\nReview product architectures and AWS environments, ensuring security requirements meaningfully inform technical decisions and final designs.\n\nLead security assurance and improvement\n\n-\nDeliver high-impact initiatives from the strategic security plan, from evaluating new approaches to deploying modern security tools and capabilities across the organization.\n\n-\nPlan and manage independent security assessments, penetration tests, and red-team exercises; translate findings into practical improvements and customer-facing trust artifacts.\n\n-\nInvestigate complex product and internal security findings, identify root causes, and help teams implement durable remediation.\n\nStrengthen customer trust and incident readiness\n\n-\nLead the investigation and resolution of customer security concerns with rigor and empathy, using each engagement to reinforce confidence in our security program.\n\n-\nServe as a security subject-matter expert during incidents, helping teams understand, contain, and learn from emerging threats. Occasional on-call participation may be required.\n\nAnticipate threats and scale the security program\n\n-\nMonitor and interpret threat intelligence, turning changes in the threat landscape into prioritized risks and actionable recommendations.\n\n-\nContinuously improve and automate security processes, increasing the quality, speed, and visibility of information that informs the security strategy.\n\nExperience and qualifications\nSecure product and cloud architecture\n\n-\nExtensive experience with application and cloud architectures, predominantly AWS, and a strong interest in how modern cloud patterns can strengthen or weaken security.\n\n-\nExtensive experience conducting application security assessments, including code review and evaluation of authentication and authorization designs.\n\n-\nExperience assessing and securing AI and agentic AI capabilities, with the curiosity to experiment, learn, and help define emerging best practices.\n\n-\nExperience applying threat-modeling approaches, such as STRIDE, to improve design discussions and identify risks early.\n\nSecurity assurance and remediation\n\n-\nExperience with penetration testing, red-team engagements, and bug-bounty programs, with an attacker mindset focused on protecting what matters most.\n\n-\nExperience investigating and managing vulnerabilities, from triage and prioritization through to remediation and organizational learning.\n\nThreat awareness and security automation\n\n-\nPractical experience using AI to automate repeatable security work, along with enthusiasm for building small tools and experiments that make security teams faster and more effective.\n\n-\nFamiliarity with Azure, GCP, and Google Workspace is a plus, as is the appetite to learn new platforms and ecosystems as Sonar evolves.\n\nAdditional comments\nThis role is based in Austin, TX. We are unable to consider candidates unwilling to be in Austin, but we are willing to relocate the right candidate.\n\nBenefits\n- Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package.\n\n- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations. You will receive 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.\n\n- We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match.\n\n- Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.\n\n- Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin, Texas.\n\n- Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.\n\n- We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.\n\n- Monthly catered events, and team events.\n\nWe value diversity, equity, and inclusion\nAt Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.\n\nIf you need any accommodation, please reach out to us at hiring@sonarsource.com.\n\nAll offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.\n\nApplications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.","url":"https://jobs.lever.co/sonarsource/65c2b725-2cda-458d-993a-8cb25a57947d"}