Job description
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 SandboxAQ Cybersecurity group is looking for a talented software engineer to join our team and contribute to the development of our next-generation cryptography and credential management solution. As a key member of our team, you will work across the stack (backend, frontend, infrastructure) to help design and implement scalable cloud-based systems that enable secure credential management inside enterprise environments. This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of cryptography, key management, policy enforcement, and distributed systems to shape the future of credential management. You will get to work with a diverse group of engineers, product managers, solution architects, cryptographers, and ML experts to rapidly bring the product to market.
What You’ll Do
- Build core features around credential issuance, distribution, rotation, and revocation while integrating with a variety of enterprise environments
- Design and implement security-centric frameworks leveraging open source and proprietary frameworks
- Develop scalable, performant and highly available solutions oriented at different security problems and environments, for infrastructure both on cloud and on-prem
- Understand existing security paradigms and solutions, and contribute to building additional security capabilities in those systems
- Automate, deploy, diligently test and maintain software as part of a long-lasting software engineering cycle
Who You Are
- 4+ years of experience working as a Backend/Fullstack Software Engineer or equivalent
- Proficiency in Golang with a strong understanding of data structures and concurrency/synchronization
- Experience working with various enterprise Key Management Systems and solid understanding of current available solutions/technologies for both cloud and on-prem deployments
- Experience developing distributed, highly available, performant and scalable infrastructure solutions and applications
- Ability to work in a small team to rapidly iterate and release production quality grade software
Nice-To-Haves
- Knowledge of Rust
- Experience developing an OS daemon or sidecar
- Experience working with relational databases
- Familiarity with AuthN/AuthZ concepts and common frameworks/solutions used in large scale deployments
- Exposure to fullstack development involving a React/TypeScript frontend
- Knowledge of Linux systems and related computer networking fundamentals
The US base salary range for this full-time position is expected to be $154k-$216k 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.
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.
