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The impact you can have

The SonarSource Languages Team is looking for a passionate C++ Developer Advocate to play a crucial role in growing and educating its fast-growing community.

SonarSource’s C-Family code analyzer is designed to fulfill the needs of C and C++ developers: spotting tricky code quality and security issues as fast as possible while generating as little noise as possible. Dereferences of null pointers, memory leaks, dead code, logic flow errors … are some examples of those quality issues. The analyzer also helps enforcing coding standards like CPP Core Guidelines and MISRA C++2008. The analyzer is built on top of Clang front-end and can run inside the IDE as well as on CI systems. The analyzer is compatible with the mainstream C and C++ compilers: Clang, GCC, MSVC and Arm.

On a daily basis, you will

• Deliver technical talks about our product at conferences, meetups, and digital events


• Write technical blog posts demonstrating new features, showing the capability of our analyzer, and educating readers on C++ best practices


• Improve documentation and tutorials


• Be the point of contact with our community. Engage with them and guide them to the best practices


• Use social media in collaboration with the marketing team in order to share knowledge, request feedback, collaborate and engage with fellow developers


• Collaborate with the marketing team to present a consistent marketing strategy and leverage the marketing team capabilities


• Produce content like demos, sample code, screencasts, and videos


• Advocate for the community and users internally and provide feedback on real-world pain points in the developer and user journey


• Work closely with the development team, take part in the technical discussions, and have an impact on the team short and long term goals


• Analyze open source projects and provide feedback and open pull-requests based on the results


• Have the freedom to participate in current sprints

The skills you will demonstrate

• Strong proven experience in C++ along with its development environment


• Solid understanding of the internals of the C++ language and familiarity with its latest standards


• Prior experience presenting C++ related subject to technical audiences


• Demonstrated experience in technical writing in blogs, articles, or tutorials about C++


• Ability to explain complex details in a simple manner


• Ability to listen and understand people’s needs


• Excellent English written and oral communication skills


• Superior public speaking and presentation skills

Words from the team

The Languages Team's mission is to build state-of-the-art static analyzers used by millions of developers.

We want to help developers to write better and safer code by spotting issues of several kinds for all major programming languages:

• Maintainability issues: code smells


• Reliability issues: bugs


• Security issues: vulnerabilities and security hotspots

Ultimately, we target all issues which can be found through static analysis, even if they require a very deep understanding of the code. The sky's the limit! We believe that, as a side effect, our analyzers should educate developers about coding best practices thanks to the rule descriptions and to the raised issues.

From a SonarSource perspective, the mission of the Languages Team is to generate the data that will provide the most valuable feedback for users of SonarSource’s products.

Why you will love it here

• Safe work culture:
  We value respect, kindness, and the right to fail.


• Flexible hours:
  We schedule our days in order to be effective at work, while also being able to enjoy life’s important moments.


• Great people:
  We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly and laid back. Still, that does not prevent us to be passionate leaders in our domains. Our 200+ SonarSourcers from 27 different nationalities can relate!


• Work-life balance:
  Keeping a healthy work-life balance is important. This is why some people prefer working some days from home.


• Always keep learning:
  In an ever-changing industry, learning new skills is a must, and we're happy to help our team to acquire them.

What we do

SonarSource was started by a team of developers that wanted to change the way code is built in an agile development process. The company was created to develop the open-source tool SonarQube, which is now the standard in code quality management with over 190,000 instances deployed today. Every day we are focused on solving developers’ next big problem.

Who we are

At SonarSource we believe in people, excellence, and delivery. We’re a team of problem solvers and overachievers who seek out others who are also passionate and relentless in their respective missions. We want to work with people who are ready to fasten their seat belts and be part of an incredible ride. We work hard not because we’re told to, but because we genuinely love what we do and do what we love. If there’s one main message we want you to remember about us, it’s that we push others to be best in class at whatever they do: choose your battle, innovate, take risks, and lead change. Join us; we’ll be smarter and stronger together.

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