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Freddy Mallet realizes that code quality management is critical and sees the need for a product that provides automated code reviews in an effective and integrated manner.
AI is writing more code than ever. Without independent verification, that's just risk at scale. Sonar’s core offering, SonarQube, is the verification platform 7M+ developers rely on to make sure their code is reliable, secure, and built to last—whether it was written by a developer, AI, or both.
At Sonar, CODE is more than an acronym. It's the shared language we use to describe the kind of team we want to be — and the standard we hold ourselves to every single day. Not because someone said so, but because we genuinely believe it makes us better at what we do, and better for the people we do it with.
We are highly committed to each other, the company, our customers, our users, and our open-source community. We hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, empathy, and passion daily.
We are obsessed with our customers, users, and impact. We engage deeply to understand and solve their real and latent problems. We love being the best at what we do, who we do it with, and how.
We start with the "Why" and move forward with high clarity of intention. We feel extreme urgency and move quickly — comfortable being uncomfortable with the tension this creates.
We are proud to be 'fit' — highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.

The team behind how developers discover, choose, and champion Sonar—from first touch to long-term trust.
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We work across time zones, ship with urgency, and hold each other to a high standard. The culture here isn't a perk—it's the reason the product is trusted by millions.
Every role can be a little different, but here’s what most candidates can expect.
Get to know us and share your background — we'll cover the role, team and Sonar, your experience, and what you're looking for in your next move
A deeper dive into your experience and approach with the person you'd be working closest with and your go-to resource from day one.
Meet a potential future teammate (or a few), and showcase the skills you'd bring to the day-to-day
Connect with colleagues from across the business to explore how you collaborate beyond your immediate team
A closing conversation with senior leadership to align on vision, goals, and mutual fit
We started with a simple belief: developers deserve better tools. That belief has taken us from a small open source project to the backbone of the AI software revolution.
Freddy Mallet realizes that code quality management is critical and sees the need for a product that provides automated code reviews in an effective and integrated manner.
Simon Brandhof starts developing the Sonar platform by integrating the best open source tools for Java. Enthused by the vision, Olivier Gaudin joins the team in Sept 2007.
The three combine their passion to accelerate the development of the Open Source Sonar platform. SonarSource is born in Nov 2008 with an initial effort to make the platform enterprise-ready.
Built on the Open Sonar platform, SonarSource starts to develop its commercial offering with its first commercial plugin 'Views' for project portfolio management and gets recognized at Open World Forum.
Sonar platform is accepted by the community and enterprise with over 2K downloads per month. The company grows and accelerates its pace of R&D with more released plugins.
Commercial editions are offered under the SonarQube Server brand and new Editions are introduced based on customer feedback and the needs of larger enterprises.
SonarSource decides to expand the scope of its languages and analyzers to cover well-known standards that encompass maintainability, reliability, and security.
SonarSource raises $45M USD investment from Insight Venture Partners to further accelerate growth. Richard Wells, MD, and Matt Gatto, VP at Insight Partners join the company's Board of Directors.
The first SaaS platform, SonarQube Cloud, is launched based on market needs and user demands. The SaaS solution is totally free for Open Source projects, paid for private projects.
A new dawn arises—SonarSource enters the SAST market and launches its Static Application Security Testing (SAST) capabilities and a new user experience.
RIPS Technologies, a German startup known for its security analyzers, becomes part of the SonarSource family. Teams join forces to disrupt the Code Security market with developer-first SAST products.
Sonar raises $412 million from new and existing investors, at a valuation of $4.7 billion. The company will use the investment to grow its go-to-market team globally as the company drives toward $1 billion in revenue.
Today, Sonar's industry-leading solution is trusted by more than 400,000 organizations and 21,000 enterprise customers globally and is considered integral to delivering better software.
Sonar is growing fast — and the most exciting chapter is still ahead.













