Sonatype

Sonatype

Fulton, Maryland, USA
4 employees
Application Security
Series D · $154.7M

About Sonatype

Sonatype is a developer-friendly, full-spectrum software supply chain management providing organizations total control of their cloud-native development lifecycles, including third-party open-source code, first-party source code, infrastructure as code, and containerized code. The company supports 70% of the Fortune 100, and its commercial and open source tools are trusted by 15 million developers around the world. With a vision to transform the way the world innovates, Sonatype helps organizations of all sizes build higher quality software that's more aligned with business needs, more maintainable, and more secure. Sonatype has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the Best Workplaces for Innovators in the world, two years in a row, and has been named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Inc. 5000 list for the past five years. Sonatype was established in 2008 and is based in Fulton, Maryland, with offices in McLean, London, and Sydney.

Open positions (5)

Company details

Team Size4
LocationFulton, Maryland, USA
IndustryApplication Security

Funding

Total raised

$154.7M

Last stage

Series D

Investors

TTPG
Accel
New Enterprise Associates
Goldman Sachs
Vista Equity Partners

Founders

JV

Jason Van Zyl

Founder of Sonatype and core contributor to Apache Maven and the open source ecosystem.

WJ

Wayne Jackson

Served as CEO of Sonatype from 2010 to 2025, previously CEO of Sourcefire (NASDAQ: FIRE, acquired by Cisco for $2.7B) and co-founder of Riverbed Technologies.

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Brian Fox

Brian Fox

Co-founder and CTO of Sonatype; former Chair of the Apache Maven project and member of the Apache Software Foundation; Governing Board Member of OpenSSF and FINOS.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.