Senior Staff DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer

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.

How We Succeed Together

We 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.

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

Who You Are

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 a 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

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

SandboxAQ welcomes all.

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where we have zero tolerance for discrimination. We invest in our employees' personal and professional growth. Once you work with us, you can’t go back to normalcy because great breakthroughs come from great teams and we are the best in AI and quantum technology.

We offer competitive salaries, stock options depending on employment type, generous learning opportunities, medical/dental/vision, family planning/fertility, PTO (summer and winter breaks), financial wellness resources, 401(k) plans, and more.

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.