Staff DevOps Engineer, DevInfra
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 183 - 256
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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 Staff DevOps Engineer to build the engineering platform for AQtive Guard our 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.
In this role you will champion developer experience by designing building and scaling the automation and tooling that streamlines our entire software development lifecycle. You will be 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. The ideal candidate is passionate about automation removing friction for developers and building the internal products that make engineering teams faster and happier.
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 its 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 Youll Do
- Take ownership of projects in a fast-paced startup environment demonstrating a tolerance for ambiguity and a proactive approach to getting things done
- Build and refine our CI/CD pipelines to enable fast secure and reliable software delivery for services written in Kotlin Go Rust and Python and deployed on Kubernetes
- Develop and maintain internal tools scripts and automation to simplify developer workflows manage dependencies and standardize deployments on Kubernetes
- Act as an advocate for developer experience actively seeking out and eliminating friction in the engineering workflow from local development to production
Who You Are
- You have a proven ability to thrive on a small team in a fast-paced fluid environment effectively managing uncertainty
- You act as a force multiplier passionate about building tools and automation that make developers lives easier
- You have deep expertise in designing building and scaling modern CI/CD systems and developer automation
Qualifications
- 5 years of production experience in a DevOps Platform or Developer Productivity role
- Extensive experience designing building and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines
- Production experience with build systems & toolchains spanning multiple languages
- Advanced scripting and software development skills for building automation and internal tools (e.g. Go Python Bash)
- Experience managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with tools like Terraform
Nice-to-Haves
- Production experience building artifacts in a monorepo
- Production experience with any hermetic build system but especially Bazel Buck or Blaze.
- Proficiency with containerization and container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes)
- Experience managing and securing data infrastructure like Kafka and Postgres at scale
- Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio
- General knowledge of cryptography
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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
About Company
SandboxAQ leverages the compound effects of AI and advanced computing to address some of the biggest challenges impacting society. SandboxAQ technologies include AI simulation, cryptography management for cybersecurity, and AI sensing for global organizations.
