Agentic Software Engineer (f/m/d)

**Who is Sonar?** 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, , 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. **The Impact You Will Have:** As an Agentic Software Engineer on the Platform Architecture squad, you will build the multi-agent systems that autonomously refactor and modernize Sonar's own codebase — starting with one of our biggest technical bets: unifying SonarQube Cloud (SQC) and SonarQube Server (SQS) onto a single, portable architecture ("build once, deploy twice"). You will: - **Design and build agentic refactoring pipelines** that can safely extract a domain's logic from our existing SQS/SQC codebases and re-platform it onto our Unified Core (a hexagonal "capability-core + adapters" architecture), with minimal human oversight. - **Define the guardrails that make autonomous refactoring safe at scale** — verification gates, automated test generation, static analysis, and rollback strategies that let agents move fast without breaking production code relied on by 7M+ developers. - **Prove the approach on real migrations** — Micronaut-to-Spring conversions, Lambda-to-container consolidations, **API convergence** (consolidating overlapping API surfaces onto shared contracts), and **strangler-fig domain extractions** — before scaling it into a repeatable, multi-agent "coding squad" capable of tackling many domains in parallel. - **Stay hands-on in the Java/Spring codebase** often enough to critically review what the agents produce, recognize when a refactor is architecturally wrong, and correct the agentic loop that generated it — not just the output. ### What You Will Do - Spend the majority of your time (roughly 70%) designing, building, and iterating on agentic tooling: orchestration, tool-use, context management, and evaluation harnesses for autonomous code-modification agents. - Build and refine the verification layer that gates what agents are allowed to ship — automated test generation, regression detection, static analysis (using our own SonarQube), and human-in-the-loop checkpoints where warranted. - Spend the remainder of your time (roughly 30%) hands-on in our Java/Spring codebase: reviewing agent-generated pull requests, fixing what they get wrong, and feeding those lessons back into the tooling. - Partner closely with the Server, Cloud Platform, and value-stream squads whose domains you're migrating — earning their trust and buy-in matters as much as the code itself. - Contribute to the Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and standards that govern how our platform evolves. - Track and evaluate emerging agent frameworks and techniques, bringing back what's genuinely useful — as distinct from what's just hype — for accelerating engineering across Sonar. ### Experience and qualifications - Hands-on experience building or operating multi-agent or LLM-agent systems in a real production setting — not just prompting a coding assistant, but designing the orchestration, tool-use, and guardrails around autonomous agents. - Experience building evaluation or verification systems for AI-generated changes: automated testing, static analysis, regression detection, or comparable safety nets for code you didn't personally write. - Strong software engineering fundamentals in Java and Spring (or a comparable JVM/enterprise stack) — enough to read a large, mature codebase critically and tell good architecture from bad. - A track record of owning complex, ambiguous technical problems independently and driving them to resolution — this is an R&D-flavored role inside a production platform team, and you'll be shaping the playbook, not following one. - Experience influencing engineers and squads you don't manage — the migrations you'll enable depend on their trust as much as on your code. ### Additional comments This role is based in Bochum, Germany. We are unable to consider candidates unwilling to be in Bochum, but we are willing to relocate the right candidate. ### Benefits - Pension Scheme: 1st Pillar (Unterstützungskasse): Automatic, financed by Sonar, 3% of gross salary, an additional benefit in addition to your salary. - Pension Scheme:2nd Pillar (bAV): Voluntary, 15% contribution by Sonar from social security savings. - We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 28 PTO days plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances. - Sonar recognizes holidays on working calendar days. If the holiday date occurs on a Saturday, we will recognize the day on the preceding Friday. If the holiday date occurs on a Sunday, we will recognize the day on the following Monday. - Public transport reimbursement of 60% for annual subscription. - Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually. - Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities. - We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company. ### ### **Salary range:**