About SandboxAQ
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 Opportunity
Introduction to the team: The Cybersecurity Group at SandboxAQ is building AQtive Guard, a 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.
Introduction to the role: The Cybersecurity Group is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will champion developer experience by designing, building, and scaling automation that streamlines our entire software development lifecycle.
This person will act as 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.
Key Responsibilities
Build and refine CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, secure, and reliable software delivery for services written in Kotlin, Go, Rust, and Python.
Develop and maintain internal tools and automation to simplify developer workflows, manage dependencies, and standardize deployments on Kubernetes.
Act as a developer experience advocate by actively seeking out and eliminating friction in the engineering workflow from local development to production.
Take ownership of projects in a fast-paced startup environment, demonstrating a proactive approach and a tolerance for ambiguity.
Act as a force multiplier by building tools and automation that make developers' lives easier and engineering teams faster.
Essential Skills & Experience
5+ years of production experience in a DevOps, Platform, or Developer Productivity role.
Deep expertise in modern CI/CD including designing, building, and scaling complex pipelines and developer automation.
Production experience with build systems and toolchains spanning multiple languages (e.g., Kotlin, Go, Rust, Python).
Advanced scripting and development skills for building automation and internal tools using Go, Python, or Bash.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) management experience using tools like Terraform.
Highly Desired Skills & Experience
Monorepo and Hermetic Build Systems: Experience building artifacts in a monorepo, specifically using Bazel.
Container Orchestration: Proficiency with Kubernetes and containerization.
Data Infrastructure: Experience managing and securing Kafka and Postgres at scale.
Advanced Networking: Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio.
Domain Knowledge: General knowledge of cryptography
Why Join Us?
We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and life outside of work.
Compensation: Competitive base salary, performance-based incentives or bonuses (where applicable), and equity participation.
Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions, retirement savings with company matching, paid parental leave, and inclusive family-building benefits.
Work-Life Balance: Flexible paid time off, company-wide seasonal breaks, and support for flexible work arrangements that enable sustainable performance.
Career Development: Opportunities for continuous learning and growth through on-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and access to internal learning and development programs.
SandboxAQ Welcomes All
We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging and respect, where diverse perspectives are actively sought and valued. Our multidisciplinary environment provides ample opportunity for continuous growth - working alongside humble, empowered, and ambitious colleagues ready to tackle epic challenges.
Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.
Accommodations: We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in job application procedures for open roles. If you need such an accommodation, please let a member of our Recruiting team know.
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