Staff Software Engineer (C++)

Team: Code Quality

Location: Geneva

Commitment: Employee / Full-Time

Workplace Type: onsite

What You Will Do Daily:

• Have strong ownership of the team’s work and lead the execution of its sprints to completion: do specifications, write code and tests, review code from peers, validate features, and follow up on user feedback after the release.
• Develop new and maintain existing features for the C and C++ code analyzer.
• Dive deep into the C++ language and argue about the best guidelines to use it effectively.
• Evolve the way our analyzers understand code by creating better models and developing new rules on top of them.
• Interact with clang front-end and have the opportunity to contribute back to it.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and peers to define new features and set priorities, ensuring that the solutions fit into the Sonar ecosystem.
• Coordinate with different stakeholders to define the team’s short and long-term goals.

The Experience You Will Need:

• 1+ year of experience as a Staff developer or equivalent level.
• 6+ years of experience as a C++ software developer.
• Solid understanding of the internals of the C++ language and familiarity with its latest standards.
• Fluency in C++ best practices for maintainable, secure, performant, and testable code.
• Curious and eager to learn about the small details of the C++ language.
• Compiler frontend knowledge is not required; you will learn it while working at SonarSource.
• Good knowledge of engineering processes.
• Excellent engineering skills and a good understanding of Computer Science fundamentals.
• Leadership: you’re able to take initiative and bring a subject to completion with little to no supervision. You have experience supporting and mentoring other team members.

Why You Will Love It Here:

• Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!). 
• Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains. 
• We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
• We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
• As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
• We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.

Benefits of Working With Sonar - Geneva:

• We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 27 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
• We contribute 60% of the total cost for your pension; 13.5% to 15.5% of your base salary for savings; 2% for risk.
• Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.  
• Commuting: Sustainable mobility options, including carpooling and the refund of 60% of the annual transportation subscription.
• 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.