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.
About the Role As an agentic-first Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of enterprise-grade, agentic-first capabilities within Nexus Repository Manager. You'll set technical direction for a major product area, orchestrate fleets of agents across parallel workstreams as your primary mode of work, and define the agentic engineering practices that other teams will learn from. You'll partner with Principal engineers on the hardest technical decisions and mentor Senior engineers to deliver capabilities that help enterprises secure their software supply chains at massive scale. Why You Will Want to Apply Own the architecture of agentic-first features in a product used by 15 million developers and 70% of the Fortune 100. Practice a fundamentally new way of building software — long-running, multi-agent development — alongside Staff and Principal engineers who are defining the craft. Work on the hardest problems at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and software supply chain security — a space where the industry playbook is still being written. Shape the technical roadmap for Nexus, set the engineering hiring bar, and mentor Senior engineers who will carry the craft forward.
Sonatype is the software supply chain security company that invented componentized software development and pioneered the software supply chain category. The company provides an end-to-end software supply chain security solution that combines proactive protection against malicious open source, enterprise-grade SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) management, and leading open source dependency management. As founders of Nexus Repository and stewards of Maven Central—the world's largest repository of Java open-source software—Sonatype leverages AI and data intelligence to help enterprises create and maintain secure, quality, and innovative software at scale. More than 2,000 organizations, including 70% of the Fortune 100 and 15 million software developers, rely on Sonatype's platform to optimize their software supply chains.
