Staff Platform Software Engineer, SandboxAQ

• The ideal candidate is passionate about building fault-tolerant and highly available systems, and will be instrumental in pushing the boundaries of performance and reliability to provide our customers with groundbreaking cybersecurity analysis
• You have experience with our core tech stack; Kotlin, Go, Kafka, Postgres, Kubernetes
• You have a proven ability to thrive on a small team in a fast-paced, fluid environment, effectively managing uncertainty
• You have a solid understanding of standard IT security best practices
• 5+ years of production experience with at least one of our core languages (Kotlin, Go), and a willingness to learn the other quickly
• Production experience with Kafka, bonus points for KStreams
• Practical, "production scale" experience with RDBMS (e.g., Postgres)
• Production experience using Kubernetes

Desirable

• The Cybersecurity Group at SandboxAQ is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help functionalize AQtive Guard, our groundbreaking solution for modern non-human identity and cryptography management, already launching globally with major organizations like top-tier financial institutions and government agencies
• We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain mission-critical services in both Kotlin and Go, deployed on Kubernetes and leveraging Kafka to ensure high-throughput, low-latency asynchronous processing of security data
• 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, pushing the boundaries of our systems 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 our AQtive Guard solution into robust and scalable technical designs