Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Streaming
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Streaming
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About SandboxAQ
SandboxAQ is a high-growth 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 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 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 like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism ownership and transformative impact.
About The Role
The Cybersecurity Group at SandboxAQ is looking for a Data Streaming 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.
Were looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer with deep expertise in Kafka and data streaming to join our platform team. This role will focus on designing building and maintaining the data streaming pipelines that are core to our platform. You will be instrumental in enhancing the performance and reliability of our systems providing our customers with groundbreaking cybersecurity analysis and protection.
What Youll Do
- Serve as the teams subject matter expert for Kafka and KStreams.
- Design build and maintain the high-performance data streaming pipelines that form the core of the AQtive Guard platform responsible for ingesting massive volumes of data from a wide array of sources including first-party sensors cloud provider APIs and other cybersecurity platforms.
- Optimize database queries and data access patterns to ensure efficiency and high performance at scale.
- Take ownership of projects in a fast-paced startup environment demonstrating a tolerance for ambiguity and a proactive approach to getting things done.
- Collaborate closely with a diverse team of cryptographers ML experts and developers to integrate their research and advancements into new products and features.
Who You Are
- You have experience with Kafka and KStreams.
- You have production experience with data streaming as well as traditional RDBMS
- You have a proven ability to thrive on a small team in a fast-paced fluid environment effectively managing uncertainty.
- You have a solid understanding of standard IT security best practices.
Qualifications
- 5 years of production experience with Kafka.
- 3 years of production experience with KStreams.
- Practical production scale experience with RDBMS (e.g. PostgreSQL).
- Proficiency in Kotlin or a willingness to learn it with a strong background in Java.
Nice-to-Haves:
- Knowledge of security-related concepts and technologies.
- Familiarity with Bazel.
- Proficiency in other languages in order of preference: Golang Rust Python.
- General knowledge of cryptography.
- Experience contributing to the Kafka open-source project.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is expected to be $217k-$304k 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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
