DevOps Engineer
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Join us in shaping the future of SonarQube's on-premises platform, directly empowering over 10 million developers worldwide to write cleaner, more secure code. As a Backend Developerin our Platform Team, you will build and enhance critical services that ensure SonarQube'sseamless installation, upgrade, and scalable operation for our global customer base. You will play a pivotal role in delivering SonarQube releases on schedule, working with adiverse tech stack including Java, Spring, Tomcat, Databases, and ElasticSearch. Your expertisewill be crucial in ensuring that all features developed by other squads are continuouslyintegrated, providing essential guidance on testing and packaging. You will contribute totackling key challenges such as scaling to meet growing demand and improving the overalldeveloper experience for both our internal teams and external users. Based in our Geneva office, you will be part of a collaborative, innovative, and fast-pacedsquad that thrives on technical excellence and ownership. You'll work alongside highly skilledengineers to simplify complex platform operations, ensuring reliability and performance forour open-source community of over 500,000 members and tens of thousands of corporate customers, including industry leaders like NASA, Novartis, Ubisoft, and Microsoft. If you are passionate about building robust, scalable backend systems and driving signifi cant impact, we want you on our team.
What You Will Do Daily: Collaborate with developers to strengthen the SonarQube architecture, directly enhancing its operability and ensuring a seamless experience for our users. Implement product-oriented features that improve how SonarQube is deployed and managed across various environments, including private and public clouds. Maintain and enhance our Helm charts and Dockerfiles to ensure smooth and efficient deployments of SonarQube in containerized setups and Kubernetes clusters. Operate and monitor our production SonarQube instance hosted on AWS, ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability. Improve our pre-production environments by applying infrastructure-as-code principles using tools like Terraform and Ansible, making our testing and validation processes morerobust and automated., 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 andstrive 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 toour 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 teammembers. We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on thegrowth and success of our organization.
Requirements
Profi ciency with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, includingmaintaining Helm charts and Dockerfi les. Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Ansible for managing andprovisioning environments. Experience with CDK is a plus. Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing, Firewalls)relevant to cloud and containerized environments, and how to troubleshoot any relatedissues. Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and how to integrate continuous testing anddeployment practices. Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS, including deploying andmanaging applications. Profi ciency in a scripting language (e.g., Python, Go, Bash) for automation of infrastructuretasks, confi guration management, and operational tooling. Solid experience in DevOps or SRE roles , with a proven track record of improving systemoperability and reliability. Ability to collaborate eff ectively with software development teams , providing guidance onarchitectural improvements and best practices for operability. A problem-solving mindset , with the ability to identify and address complex technicalchallenges in a production environment. Experience operating and monitoring production systems , ensuring high availability andperformance.
Benefits & conditions
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 salaryfor 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.