SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors.
We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders.
At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact.
The Cybersecurity Group at SandboxAQ is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to build the engineering platform for AQtive Guard, our groundbreaking solution for modern non-human identity and cryptography management. As we deploy globally with major organizations like top-tier financial institutions and government agencies, the speed, quality, and security of our software delivery are critical to our success.
In this role, you will champion developer experience by designing, building, and scaling the automation and tooling that streamlines our entire software development lifecycle. You will be a subject matter expert on CI/CD, build systems, and developer productivity, creating the platform that enables our engineers to ship high-quality code rapidly and reliably. The ideal candidate is passionate about automation, removing friction for developers, and building the internal products that make engineering teams faster and happier.
How We Succeed TogetherWe move fast, build with purpose, and are obsessed with making an impact. Our culture is built for those who want to be at the forefront of innovation, and it's guided by these core principles:
- We are passionate about solving real-world problems for our customers.
- We take deep ownership of our work and hold ourselves to the highest standards of excellence.
- We are a team that stands by our commitments to each other and our customers, building trust through reliability.
- We are proactive and action-oriented, always seeking opportunities to make a difference and drive our mission forward.
- We believe in amplifying our collective impact through collaboration.
- We are dedicated to seeing our projects through to the finish line, ensuring that every detail is accounted for and that our work has a lasting impact.
- Take ownership of projects in a fast-paced startup environment, demonstrating a tolerance for ambiguity and a proactive approach to getting things done
- Build and refine our CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, secure, and reliable software delivery for services written in Kotlin, Go, Rust, and Python, and deployed on Kubernetes
- Develop and maintain internal tools, scripts, and automation to simplify developer workflows, manage dependencies, and standardize deployments on Kubernetes
- Act as an advocate for developer experience, actively seeking out and eliminating friction in the engineering workflow from local development to production
- You have a proven ability to thrive on a small team in a fast-paced, fluid environment, effectively managing uncertainty
- You act as a force multiplier, passionate about building tools and automation that make developers' lives easier
- You have deep expertise in designing, building, and scaling modern CI/CD systems and developer automation
- 5+ years of production experience in a DevOps, Platform, or Developer Productivity role
- Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines
- Production experience with build systems & toolchains spanning multiple languages
- Advanced scripting and software development skills for building automation and internal tools (e.g., Go, Python, Bash)
- Experience managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with tools like Terraform
- Production experience building artifacts in a monorepo
- Production experience with any hermetic build system, but especially Bazel, Buck or Blaze.
- Proficiency with containerization and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Experience managing and securing data infrastructure like Kafka and Postgres at scale
- Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio
- General knowledge of cryptography
The US base salary range for this full-time position is expected to be $183k to $256k per year. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This role may be eligible for annual discretionary bonuses and equity.
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What We Do
SandboxAQ is harnessing the exponential power of AI + Quantum (AQ) technology. The inspiration for SandboxAQ and some of the team originated at Alphabet Inc., becoming an independent entity in 2022. Our mission is to develop commercial products for financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, public sector, and other computationally-intensive industries.
Our team’s unique approach enables cross-pollination across a diverse range of fields, from physics, computer science, neuroscience, mathematics, cryptography, natural sciences, and more!
Our success comes from coalescing diverse talent to create an environment where experimental thinking and collaboration yield breakthrough physics + AI solutions. Join a culture where thought leadership, diverse talent, employee engagement, and technological impact will create the next tech uproar.
We are deeply committed to education as a means to advance quantum solutions and computing initiatives. We invest in future talent through internship programs, research papers, developer tools, textbooks, educational talks/events, and partnerships with universities/talent hubs to attract multi-disciplinary talent. Our hope is to inspire people from all walks of life to be prepared for the quantum era and encourage a path in STEM
