Staff Security Engineer, Data Protection

  • $154k-$216k
  • Remote - United States

Remote

Cybersecurity

Mid-level

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

SandboxAQ is a growing, fully remote technology company, which is striving to follow best security practices. We are looking for an engineer to take ownership of our data protection  capabilities and help strengthen our security posture. As part of the Information Security team, this engineer will play a critical role in keeping our data safe as well as maintaining high levels of security assurance for our customers.

What You’ll Do

  • Work cross-functionally to ensure security and privacy of SandboxAQ and customer data
  • Develop strategies and automation around data classification and monitoring
  • Work within AWS and GCP environments making sure our systems are configured correctly and architected following best security practices
  • Assist product teams in design of multi-tenant SaaS products
  • Act as the steward of CUI data within our organization
  • Automate vulnerability detection, data loss prevention (DLP), and privacy incident response across cloud platforms
  • Collaborate with the development, DevOps, and InfoSec team to integrate privacy solutions into CI/CD pipelines
  • Document privacy architectures, data flows, and technical implementations

Who You Are

  • U.S. citizenship is required due to USG contract requirements
  • Experienced in managing confidentiality, integrity and availability of data within cloud environments, both manually and through automation
  • Have an understanding of industry best practices and tooling, including their limitations
  • Proficient in risk-based decision making as it applies to data classification
  • Have worked with CUI data and are familiar with CMMC 2.0 / NIST 800-171 controls
  • Able to develop sensible data retention policies
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work across different groups to build consensus on scalable data design patterns

Nice To Have

  • Have actively participated in standing up SOC2 compliance
  • Practical experience with GDPR / CPPA / similar conformance
  • Experience with GCP DLP and Amazon Macie
  • Experience with Infra-as-code, such as Terraform or similar
  • Reliability engineering mentality: ability to design scalable, maintainable, and testable infrastructure

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.

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