SandboxAQ
Leveraging AQ - the powerful compound effects of AI + Quantum technology
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Location
United States
Posted
9 days ago
Salary
$168.3K - $276K / year
Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishAWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKotlinKubernetesPythonTerraformGo
Job Description
• 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.
Job 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
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions
- Retirement savings with company matching
- Paid parental leave
- Inclusive family-building benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Company-wide seasonal breaks
- Support for flexible work arrangements that enable sustainable performance
- Opportunities for continuous learning and growth through on-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and access to internal learning and development programs