Senior Software Engineer (Java) - Remediation Agent

SonarSource SA

Job Overview

Location

Geneva

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Architect and develop the backend systems for Verified Autonomous Remediation, a next-generation agentic workflow that autonomously fixes code issues by rigorously testing and validating AI-generated changes using Sonar’s analysis engine.
• Design scalable, high-performance services that integrate seamlessly with AI code assistants like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, and Devin to enable trusted, automated code remediation at enterprise scale.
• Lead the engineering of core components that enforce reliability, security, and maintainability of AI-generated code, ensuring enterprises can automate code fixes without compromising software integrity.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed SonarQube’s static analysis and code quality rules into autonomous remediation workflows, making fixes explainable, consistent, and compliant with enterprise standards.
• Build and optimize the SonarQube Foundation Agent’s repair capabilities, currently leading in agentic software repair leaderboards, to improve accuracy, reduce false positives, and increase automation adoption among 400,000+ enterprise customers.
• Implement enterprise-grade context augmentation and constraint systems via SonarSweep and Sonar Context Augmentation to guide AI agents with precise codebase context, reducing errors and increasing trust in autonomous fixes.
• Own end-to-end delivery of backend features from concept to production, including API design, data modeling, distributed system architecture, and observability pipelines for monitoring remediation outcomes.
• Drive technical decisions aligned with Sonar’s CODE values: Committed to customers, Obsessed with quality, Deliberate in decisions, Effective as one team, ensuring all systems meet the reliability demands of Fortune 100 clients like Nvidia, Goldman Sachs, and Ford.
• Work within a globally distributed engineering team across hubs in Geneva, Austin, Bochum, London, Singapore, Tokyo, Dubai, and Washington D.C., contributing to a fast-paced, profitable, and rapidly growing AI software infrastructure.
• Solve critical engineering challenges to close the “Trust Gap” in AI-generated code by ensuring every automated fix is verifiable, auditable, and backed by Sonar’s industry-leading code analysis engine.
• Contribute to the evolution of Sonar’s product suite as the backbone of Agent-Centric Development (AC/DC), enabling millions of developers to adopt autonomous remediation with confidence.
• Maintain and improve system performance, resilience, and security for a platform used by over 75% of the Fortune 100, where 44% fewer outages occur due to AI-generated code when Sonar is deployed.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and on-call rotations to ensure system reliability and continuous improvement across the remediation stack.
• Translate complex software quality requirements into robust, production-ready backend systems that scale with the growth of AI-assisted development across global enterprises.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with Java as the primary language
• Proven experience designing and scaling distributed backend systems in production environments
• Deep understanding of static code analysis, code quality metrics, or software verification tools
• Experience working with AI/ML-powered code generation tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible work hours and remote-friendly culture with global team hubs
• Generous learning and development stipend for conferences, courses, and certifications

Skills & Technologies

Java

GitHub

Senior

Onsite

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About SonarSource SA

SonarSource SA is a Swiss software company founded in 2008 that develops the SonarQube, SonarCloud and SonarLint code quality and security platforms. Its static analysis engines detect bugs, code smells and security vulnerabilities in 30+ programming languages, providing developers and DevOps teams with continuous inspection that integrates into CI/CD workflows. The company offers both open-source and commercial editions, serving enterprises, government agencies and open-source communities worldwide to improve code maintainability, reliability and security across millions of projects.

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