Staff Software Engineer (Java) - AI & Developer Experience (f/m/d)

SonarSource

Employee / Full-Time Computer Occupations
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Location
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Posted
June 03, 2026

Job Description

What you will do

  • Build the Real-Time Feedback Loop. You will design and implement intelligent guidance systems that proactively steer both developers and AI agents toward secure patterns. Your mission is to ensure that security flaws and architectural drift are eliminated before a PR is opened.

  • Lead the Technical Evolution. You’ll drive architectural decisions for the IDE Extensions and their backend. You will solve for hard constraints: managing memory and CPU footprint, providing low-latency responses, and ensuring we never block the UI thread to protect the engineer's flow state.

  • Architect the Context Engine for AI Agents. You will contribute to the development of the Sonar MCP Server and Sonar CLI, allowing local AI Agents (like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, etc.) to ask for project rules and security context before they generate code.

  • Champion a Unified Experience. You will ensure our to...

    • Job Details

    • Job Type
      Employee / Full-Time
    • Category
      Computer Occupations
    • Date Posted
      June 03, 2026
    • Application Deadline
      July 13, 2026