DevOps Engineer

Sonatype is the software supply chain security company. We provide the world’s best end-to-end software supply chain security solution, combining the only proactive protection against malicious open source, the only enterprise grade SBOM management and the leading open source dependency management platform. This empowers enterprises to create and maintain secure, quality, and innovative software at scale.

As founders of Nexus Repository and stewards of Maven Central, the world’s largest repository of Java open-source software, we are software pioneers and our open source expertise is unmatched. We empower innovation with an unparalleled commitment to build faster, safer software and harness AI and data intelligence to mitigate risk, maximize efficiencies, and drive powerful software development.

More than 2,000 organizations, including 70% of the Fortune 100 and 15 million software developers, rely on Sonatype to optimize their software supply chains.

We are looking for team members that want to help us change the way the world innovates through software. The Sonatype team has already done this through its contributions to the Maven build system, the Nexus Repository Manager and Nexus Lifecycle, and most recently with Sonatype SBOM manager – literally changing the way the world creates and delivers software across thousands of organizations and millions of developers.

That was just the beginning. We need your help so that we can do it again. If you are interested in delivering value across nearly every decision made in the world of software development, to help companies create better and safer software faster, to transform innovation through software, read on.

Who you are and what you'll do:
• You are an engineer who has 4+ years of experience running high availability systems and supporting infrastructure in customer-facing production environments.
• You are motivated by the opportunity to define repeatable practices for service delivery- via modular, reusable automation and a developer platform that enables self-service delivery of services. You will also participate in the governance controls that reduce risk and promote standardization across the organization.
• You will be a member of the Sonatype Developer Experience team, which has a wide range of responsibilities to drive service delivery excellence for Sonatype products and services that are customer-facing and customer-adjacent.
• You will refine a set of high level enablement practices - for instance, design review, service launch coordination, production readiness assessment, service level objective definition / review, incident management, and cost awareness- to support delivery teams at various phases of their service lifecycle and maturity.
• You will collaborate closely with Sonatype delivery teams to define product specific metrics and remediations through system analysis, testing, and fault troubleshooting.

What you need:
• Proficiency with a high-level programming language (eg: Python, Go), bash scripting and linux
• Proficiency in modern technical operating practices
• System architecture & design experience
• Continuous integration / continuous delivery (Jenkins, FluxCD and GitHub Actions)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Cloud services (AWS) and Kubernetes
• SRE principles & practices
• Experience with specific AWS offerings, including many of:
• ECS/EKS/ECR
• EC2, S3, RDS, VPCs
• IAM Policy Docs, Policies, Roles, and Instance Profiles
• Cloudwatch Logs
• Docker Containers and orchestration (ECS, EKS)
• Terraform and the use of Terraform modules
• Kubernetes cluster concepts and design
• Experience improving service observability: monitoring agents, metrics, logging and dashboards. Knowledge of OpenTelemetry and Prometheus and observability platforms similar to DataDog, Splunk, Dynatrace or Observe
• Comfortable participating in an on-call rotation with teammates to respond and triage production issue escalations during off-hours

Things we're proud of:
• 2025 AI Compliance Solution of the Year - AI Breakthrough Awards
• 2025 DEVIES Award to our SBOM Manager new product for its innovation and impact in developer technology
• 2024 Industry Leader in Forrester-Wave for Software Composition Analysis (2024 Q4 report)
• 2023 Fast Company Best Places for Innovators
• 2023 Gartner's Magic Quadrant
• 2023 Software Report's Top 100 Software Companies
• 2023 BuiltIn Best Places to Work
• 2022 Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Leader Award
• 2022 PeerSpot Silver Peer Award in Software Composition Analysis
• 2022 Tech Ascension Best DevOps Security Solution Award
• 2022 NVCT Cyber Company of the Year
• Company Wellness Week - We shut down company operations for a week to enable all employees to pursue personal growth and enjoy a much-needed and deserved rest.
• Paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO)

At Sonatype, we value diversity and inclusivity. We offer perks such as parental leave, diversity and inclusion working groups, and flexible working practices to allow our employees to show up as their whole selves. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.