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Principal Support Engineer
SonarSourceUnited StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 Sept 2025
About the role
Who is Sonar?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.
Why You Should Apply: At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.
The Impact You Will Have:As a Principal Support Engineer, you are a master of your craft. You have a deep understanding of the entire IT landscape, not just individual devices. You act as a critical player in maintaining the company's IT infrastructure and security. You are not just fixing a single user's issue; you are diagnosing complex system-wide problems and architecting solutions that prevent future issues. A principal support engineer mentors junior team members, develops best practices for the department, and serves as a key contributor to the overall IT strategy. You are a proactive force for security and stability, anticipating potential threats and fortifying the company's systems before a breach can even occur.
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.
Why You Should Apply: At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.
The Impact You Will Have:As a Principal Support Engineer, you are a master of your craft. You have a deep understanding of the entire IT landscape, not just individual devices. You act as a critical player in maintaining the company's IT infrastructure and security. You are not just fixing a single user's issue; you are diagnosing complex system-wide problems and architecting solutions that prevent future issues. A principal support engineer mentors junior team members, develops best practices for the department, and serves as a key contributor to the overall IT strategy. You are a proactive force for security and stability, anticipating potential threats and fortifying the company's systems before a breach can even occur.
What You Will Do Daily:
- You will manage the full lifecycle of employee IT support, from onboarding to offboarding, for a global company. This includes handling IT equipment logistics, user access management, and ensuring data integrity.
- You'll serve as a senior point of contact for daily IT incidents and service requests, resolving issues, and identifying long-term solutions. Your role involves providing on-site and remote support, including potential travel to different office locations to assist with expansions or cover absences.
- A key part of your work will be creating and maintaining comprehensive documentation to empower users and streamline internal processes. You'll also manage relationships with IT vendors and drive continuous improvement by analyzing support data to enhance tooling and policies. Finally, you'll oversee physical security systems, such as access control and security cameras.
The Experience You Will Need:
- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in a technical support or engineering role. This is a senior position influencing global strategy; it requires a deep, proven track record in global, fast-moving organizations.
- Proven ability to handle complex, high-profile, and critical customer issues. This includes managing and driving a resolution for technical problems that have been escalated through multiple tiers of support.
- Demonstrated experience in a leadership or mentorship capacity. This is crucial. The Principal Engineer isn't just an individual contributor; they are a "knowledge multiplier" who trains and elevates the skills of others on
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