About SandboxAQ
SandboxAQ is a highgrowth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the worlds greatest challenges. The companys Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences financial services navigation cybersecurity and other sectors.
We are a global team that is techfocused and includes experts in AI chemistry cybersecurity physics mathematics medicine engineering and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent growth capitalbacked company in 2022 funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders.
At SandboxAQ weve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity collaboration and impact. By investing deeply in our people were building a thriving global workforce poised to tackle the worlds epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission in a community of likeminded people who value entrepreneurialism ownership and transformative impact.
About The Role
At SandboxAQ we operate at the cutting edge of AI/ML and quantum technologies. As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be a leader providing deep handson technical support to our development teams ensuring they have the tools infrastructure and guidance to succeed. Your role is to drive excellence in development processes lead infrastructure initiatives and support teams to deliver scalable highquality solutions. This is a senior position where technical acumen and handson mentorship are paramount to success.
Core Responsibilities
- Provide and deliver deep handson technical support to developers acting as a trusted advisor to help optimize workflows troubleshoot complex issues and improve development practices
- Architect and maintain scalable infrastructure and development tools to support SandboxAQs initiatives
- Build and implement new development tools and infrastructure
- Automate and streamline release and development processes ensuring efficiency and scalability
- Collaborate with DevOps IT and InfoSec teams to leverage technology effectively while enhancing security and performance
- Drive a culture of excellence by ensuring consistent highquality delivery with a focus on scalability and maintainability
- Provide strategic direction to engineering leadership contributing to longterm infrastructure planning and vision
Minimum Qualifications
- Proven experience as a Senior DevOps engineer or in a senior engineering role with a focus on deep handson developer support in complex environments
- Extensive experience with AWS cloud infrastructure including designing deploying and maintaining scalable systems. Additional experience with GCP or Azure is a big plus.
- Expertise in Git GitHub workflows CI/CD (CircleCI) automation and efficient release pipelines
- Expertise with configuration management tools (Ansible Saltstack Chef Puppet)
- Expertise in Linux systems containerization (Kubernetes Docker) and infrastructureascode tools (Terraform CloudFormation).
- Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases and experience integrating them into development processes
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python preferred)
- Strong problemsolving skills and a collaborative mindset for working across crossfunctional teams
- Experience orchestrating a fleet of physical devices (IoT).
Preferred Qualifications
- Location on the West Coast or the Mountain Time zone.
- Experience in supporting both traditional software development and machine learning/data science environments
- MedTech industry experience.
- Proven ability to manage regulated data and ensure security and compliance
- Experience with traceability for regulatory compliance (i.e. CFR 21 Guidelines) using CloudTrail.
- Indepth understanding of cloud and network topologies with handson experience using tools as Tailscale Sumologic etc. to support highly distributed systems
- Experience with observability and incident management processes and tools such as Datadog PagerDuty etc.
- Experience with Cloud Asset Management and Inventory
The US base salary range for this fulltime position is expected to be $154k$256k per year. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range individual pay is determined by factors including jobrelated 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 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 cant 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.
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