Software Engineer Agentic Code Review (Gitar)
Job Location:
San Mateo, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Sonar enables organizations to ship agentic code with confidence. Code creation is abundant but confidence is scarce. Our core platform SonarQube verifies over 750 billion lines of code every day delivering agentic verification and governance for all code. Trusted by more than 7 million developers and 75% of the Fortune 100 including teams at Nvidia ServiceNow Goldman Sachs AstraZeneca and Ford Motor Company Sonar enables organizations to reduce outages improve security and lower the cost and risk of agentic software development.
Founded in Geneva and now headquartered in Austin Texas Sonar has a global team working across offices and hubs including Silicon Valley London Bochum Barcelona Singapore Tokyo and the Washington D.C. area. At Sonar were enabling enterprises to build agentic software factories that can move quickly while maintaining the control consistency and evidence required to ship with confidence.
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the team building Gitars core platform. Gitar is building an AI-native code validation platform that automates the entire pull request lifecycle. We review every change with full awareness of the codebase team conventions and the intent behind the code; we generate fixes validate them against CI and only consider the work done when the build passes; and we automate the full pull request lifecycle from creation to merge.
You will work at the intersection of program analysis developer tools and AI helping design and ship systems that reason about code at depth. You will do so by combining static and dynamic analysis with large language models to catch bugs that rules-based tools miss generate validated fixes and automate the developers workflow end to end.
Design and build program analysis systems that reason about code at the level of intent control flow data flow and behavior across languages and at the scale of thousands of repos and large monorepos.
Combine static and dynamic analysis with large language models to detect functional bugs logic errors and behavioral issues that deterministic tools cannot catch.
Build the AI agents and orchestration layers that review pull requests generate and validate fixes against CI root-cause CI failures and automate the full pull request lifecycle from creation to merge.
Develop indexing retrieval and embedding systems that give models the right context (codebase conventions dependencies and intent) at the right cost and latency.
Own the production characteristics of the systems you build: correctness accuracy latency cost observability and security in a zero-trust environment.
Partner with the SonarQube team to deepen the integration between deterministic static analysis and AI-native validation building workflows where one informs the other.
Engage directly with customers many of whom run the largest engineering organizations in the world to understand their workflows and ship what they need.
- A PhD or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
24 years of professional software engineering experience.
Solid engineering fundamentals: data structures algorithms and the ability to reason about correctness and performance.
Have practical hands-on experience with AI and LLM-driven development.
Exposure to or strong interest in program analysis fundamentals: static analysis dynamic analysis type systems intermediate representations control- and data-flow analysis or symbolic execution.
Strong written and verbal communication comfort working directly with sophisticated engineering customers and the judgment to make trade-offs across correctness latency cost and developer experience.
Experience building developer tools that engineers actually use: compilers build systems IDE tooling linters refactoring tools test infrastructure or large-scale code transformation.
Experience in industry research labs (e.g. Microsoft Research Google Research Meta AI) at large-scale developer infrastructure teams (Uber Google Meta Microsoft Stripe etc.) or as a contributor to widely used open-source compilers analyzers or developer tools.
Were intentional about this. We believe the best teams are built in the room together. Three anchor days Mondays Tuesdays and Thursdays create the collaboration rhythm that makes a hub office worth having.
Candidates need to be genuinely based in the location the role is posted if thats not where you are today were happy to support relocation for the right person.
At 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.
If you need any accommodation please reach out to us at emailprotected.
All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.
Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
About Company
Bad code is risky business. AI-generated or written by humans, Sonar ensures top-tier code quality & security. Protect your organization from bugs and vulnerabilities that jeopardize customer trust, damage your reputation, and undermine developer experience.
