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.
About The Role
The Cybersecurity Group at SandboxAQ is looking for a DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer to help functionalize AQtive Guard, our groundbreaking solution for modern non-human identity and cryptography management already launching globally with major organizations like top-tier financial institutions and government agencies.
We’re looking for a DevOps & Infrastructure engineer to help deliver the next generation of cybersecurity systems. A successful candidate will be comfortable designing and maintaining both on-premise and cloud infrastructure, including local development environments and full CI/CD pipelines. Knowledge of information security best practices will be considered a plus. The candidate will be working closely with a diverse team consisting of cryptographers, mathematicians, ML experts, and physicists, where they will be collaborating together in delivering novel solutions.
What You’ll Do
Work with teams of developers and cryptographers to integrate their research advancements into new products
Develop and maintain tooling for interacting with the various deployments, set up local development environment, and maintain a complex code base
Work across on-premise, cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures to deliver fully functional products
Design scalable and fault-tolerant architecture for cloud deployments
Ensure high-quality deliverables by maintaining CI/CD pipelines and concise documentation
Contribute to delivering AQtive Guard for FedRAMP compliance
Who You Are
US Citizenship and/or security clearance is required due to USG contract requirements
Strong experience using, building, and maintaining infrastructure in AWS
Strong experience managing and orchestrating workloads using Docker and Kubernetes
Experience defining infrastructure and processes as code through Terraform, and managing CI systems
Strong experience with a few scripting languages
Expertise building large-scale distributed systems
Ability to containerize and automate deployments and tests using CI/CD pipelines
Ability to work in a small team/rapid prototyping environment and deal with uncertainty and fluidity
Understanding of standard IT security best practices
Nice to Haves
Experience with compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP).
Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Puppet
Knowledge of security-related concepts and technologies
Familiarity with Bazel
Familiarity with streaming frameworks, especially Kafka and Kstreams
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.
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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