[Remote] Staff Software Engineer, Platform
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. They are looking for a Staff Engineer to act as a technical leader within their Platform & Infrastructure organization, focusing on evolving architectural strategy and mentoring junior engineers.
Responsibilities
- Lead Architectural Strategy: Define and execute the long-term vision for our infrastructure, designing resilient, distributed systems that support our rapidly growing AI workloads
- Mentor and Develop Talent: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of high standards, code quality, and continuous learning
- Systemic Problem Solving: Partner with engineering leads to diagnose complex technical bottlenecks and break down multifaceted infrastructure challenges using first principles into scalable, manageable technical requirements
- Drive Platform Excellence: Design and implement foundational platform services that improve developer experience and reduce operational overhead across the engineering organization
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with product, research, and security teams to ensure our infrastructure is secure, performant, and aligned with the company’s broader mission
Skills
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of designing and scaling complex distributed systems
- Demonstrated experience leading high-impact engineering teams, including mentoring junior engineers and influencing technical strategy at a staff level
- Expertise in cloud-native infrastructure (GCP preferred) Kubernetes at scale
- Expertise in GPU/ML infrastructure for large training, data-generation, and inference workloads, including GPU scheduling, optimization and high-performance networking
- Strong ability to decompose complex technical problems into simplified, incremental, and actionable architectural designs
- Deep proficiency in architectural patterns for high-throughput, low-latency services
- Experience operating in high-growth environments where infrastructure requirements pivot rapidly due to new scientific or product discoveries
- Experience with multi-tenant, data governance, data registries, lineage, and federated access for model tuning with high IP sensitive environments
- Worked in regulated / compliance-bound environments that have data residency, export controls, SOC2, and strict isolation requirements
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
- Fully remote
- 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
- Career Defining Work
- Performance-based incentives or bonuses (where applicable)
- Equity participation
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