C++ Developer in Bochum bei SonarSource

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The impact you can have

The SonarSource Languages Team is looking for a passionate C++ Developer to work on its advanced C-Family analyzer.

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 enforce 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.

By joining the C-Family, you will be part of an autonomous team without a manager. You will choose what to work on. You will have fun facing the ultimate challenge of analyzing what is probably the most complex language in the world: C++.

On a daily basis, you will

• Develop new and maintain existing features for the C and C++ code analyzer
• Dive deep into the C++ language and argue about the best guidelines to use it effectively
• Evolve the way our analyzers understand code by creating better models and develop new rules on top of them
• Interact with clang front-end and have the opportunity to contribute back to it
• Contribute to the code quality of many developers around the world
• Define the team’s short and long term goals
• Be in a team where continuous integration is not just a buzzword and which really cares to provide the best user experience

The skills you will demonstrate

• Strong proven experience in C++ along with its development environment to understand end-users context and expectations
• Solid understanding of the internals of the C++ language and familiarity with its latest standards
• Fluency in C++ best practices for maintainable, secure, performant, and testable code
• Curious and eager to learn about the small details of the C++ language
• Bold and self-confident to challenge the status quo and yet humble and open to be challenged
• Compiler frontend knowledge is not required; you will learn it while working at SonarSource

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:

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.

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