Field CTO (Austin)

Austin, TexasMission Control – Executive Office /Employee / Full-Time /On-siteWho is Sonar?Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily. We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly. And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations. Why You Should Apply: At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.The Impact You Will Have:As a Field CTO, you will serve as a critical strategic conduit between Sonar’s leadership and the world’s most sophisticated enterprise technology leaders. Your focus will be a mix of strategic market evangelism and deep technical advisory. You will enhance Sonar's brand reputation and credibility as the definitive thought leader on the future of the SDLC in the age of AI, and your engagements with high-profile customers will directly inform and shape our product roadmap and GTM strategy, ensuring Sonar remains indispensable at the highest levels of global technology organizations. This is a global role that will require frequent travel to customer sites as well as to our many offices. What You Will Do Daily: Executive Advisory & Engagement: Engage in deep, strategic advisory conversations with CTOs, Chief Architects, and VP-level technology leaders at our largest global accounts and partners, helping them rationalize the technical path to achieving measurable business impact and value with Sonar's platform.External Thought Leadership & Brand Building: Serve as a highly credible, senior spokesperson for Sonar, representing the company at major industry conferences, webinars, and executive briefings, and engaging with press and industry analysts.Executive Enablement & Partnerships: Leverage your professional network and credibility to facilitate strategic engagements for Sonar's leadership team, while simultaneously identifying, developing, and supporting strategic technology partnerships and acting as an Ecosystem Orchestrator for complex client initiatives.Technical Content Creation: Lead the creation of high-impact technical content (e.g., whitepapers, reference architectures, advanced blog posts) that showcases Sonar’s expertise across the SDLCGTM Strategy & Product Feedback: Identify and analyze industry-specific trends and their impact on software development, co-creating industry solutions, and feeding executive insights directly into Product Management, GTM, and Architecture teams, helping shape product roadmaps.Strategic Sales Support & Technical Validation: Support the most complex and strategic sales cycles by providing unmatched technical credibility and executive-level context. This includes delivering validated evidence and building tailored architectural walkthroughs and proofs-of-concept that demonstrate Sonar's behavior and value in the customer's real-world environment.Internal Multiplier & Mentorship: Act as a technical multiplier across the organization, providing specialized mentorship and high-level architectural guidance to the TA and SE teams, and assist with top-tier technical recruiting.The Experience You Will Need:Executive Credibility & Network: Extensive experience in software development, solutions architecture, or a related field. Proven experience holding a senior strategic technology leadership role (Divisional CTO, VP Solutions Architect) within a major global enterprise or a leading technology company. Advisory Experience: Proven experience in a customer-facing technical role (e.g., Field CTO, Solutions Architect or Technical Advisory) from a major cloud provider or a major global technology institution Deep Domain Authority: Deep expertise and thought leadership on the SDLC, AI, large-scale application security, and modern engineering practices.Communication & Presence: Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex, multi-domain technical topics into strategic business implications for C-level audiences.Cultural Fit & Velocity: A strong customer-centric mindset coupled with proven experience thriving in a fast-paced, high-growth technology or SaaS environment. Alignment with Sonar's culture of high standards, urgency, and efficiency. This role requires a global mindset and a willingness to be both externally facing and internally consultative.Why You Will Love It Here: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 and strive 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 to our 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 team members.We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.Benefits of Working With Sonar:Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package.We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations. You will receive 23 days of PTO per calendar year (on a pro-rated basis depending on your employment start date), with additional time provided for sickness, life events and holidays.We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin, Texas.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.Monthly catered events, and team eventsWe Value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: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.All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.We do not currently support visa candidates in the US. Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. 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