Field CTO

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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, Master Card, Siemens, and T‑Mobile.

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.

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.

• 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 SDLC.
• GTM 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.

• Executive Credibility & Network:
  Extensive experience in software development, solutions architecture, or a related field. Proven experience holding a senior…