SandboxAQ

Staff Software Engineer, Platform

SandboxAQ

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $183,000 - $256,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

Cyber SecurityDistributed SystemsGoKafkaKotlinKubernetesPythonRustTerraform

About the role

  • Take ownership of projects in a fast-paced startup environment, demonstrating a tolerance for ambiguity and a proactive approach to getting things done
  • Design, build, and maintain mission-critical services in both Kotlin and Go on Kubernetes
  • Leverage Kafka and KStreams in asynchronous processing of security data
  • Champion and implement best practices for building highly available, fault-tolerant, and observable distributed systems suitable for top-tier financial and government clients
  • Drive performance tuning and optimization efforts to meet stringent latency and reliability requirements
  • Mentor other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and pair programming to elevate the team's technical excellence
  • Collaborate closely with product managers and security researchers to translate requirements for the AQtive Guard solution into robust and scalable technical designs

Requirements

  • 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
  • Experience designing, building, and maintaining services in Kotlin and Go on Kubernetes
  • Experience leveraging Kafka and KStreams for asynchronous processing
  • Expertise building highly available, fault-tolerant, and observable distributed systems
  • Experience with performance tuning and optimization for low-latency, high-throughput systems
  • Proven ability to thrive on a small team in a fast-paced, fluid environment
  • Deep expertise in designing, building, and scaling modern CI/CD systems and developer automation
  • Nice-to-haves: knowledge of security-related concepts and technologies; familiarity with Bazel; proficiency in Rust and Python; general knowledge of cryptography