SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The Cybersecurity Group is looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to build the engineering platform for their Cryptographic Posture Management and AI Security Posture Management products.
Responsibilities:
- Engineer the Platform: Design and build our internal self-service Cloud Platform as a Product. You will develop production-grade software that automates the provisioning, scaling, and lifecycle management of our global infrastructure
- Architect Scalable, Resilient Cloud: Lead the design of highly available, multi-region cloud architectures (AWS/GCP) for low-latency, high-throughput security services, making key decisions on distributed systems, state management, and disaster recovery
- Extend Kubernetes: Build and maintain custom Kubernetes Controllers, Operators, and CRDs to orchestrate complex, stateful workloads and enforce best practices automatically
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Rigor: Apply software engineering standards to IaC. Architect reusable Terraform/OpenTofu modules, implement automated infrastructure testing (Terratest), and enforce GitOps (ArgoCD) for deterministic deployments
- Build Developer Tooling: Design and code CLIs, APIs, and SDKs to abstract infrastructure complexity for product engineers while enforcing security and compliance guardrails
- Drive Technical Excellence: Mentor engineers on cloud-native patterns, review infrastructure code, and champion a culture of automation
Requirements:
- 5+ years of production experience in an Infrastructure, Platform, or Developer Productivity role
- Strong proficiency for developing SDKs, CLIs or APIs (Go, Python, Kotlin)
- Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining complex orchestration pipelines
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes, containerization and container orchestration
- Production experience with large scale distributed systems
- Experience managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with tools like Terraform, Helm
- Extensive cloud provider experience with AWS or GCP
- Production experience building artifacts in a monorepo
- Production experience with any hermetic build system, but especially Bazel
- Experience managing and securing data infrastructure like Kafka and Postgres at scale
- Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio
- General knowledge of cryptography