Senior Engineering Manager

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.

The Cybersecurity Group at SandboxAQ is building AQtive Guard, our groundbreaking solution for modern non-human identity and cryptography management. This product is already launching globally with major organizations, including top-tier financial institutions and government agencies. You will lead the SDK and Integrations team, a specialized unit focused on building seamless connectivity between our platform and various third-party enterprise security tools.

The Cybersecurity Group is looking for a Engineering Manager to join our team. This role is central to our efforts to: functionalize AQtive Guard by advancing security integrations and supporting seamless connectivity with enterprise security platforms.

This person will lead the technical strategy for developer-facing SDKs, own the end-to-end developer experience, and remain hands-on with architecture decisions while managing and growing the engineering team.

• Lead and grow the SDK and Integrations team while remaining hands-on with code reviews, architecture decisions, and critical feature development.

• Design and build production-grade SDKs and APIs that enable seamless integration between our platform and third-party enterprise tools.

• Own the developer experience end-to-end, including API design, documentation, and the creation of deployment guides.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with enterprise customers, partners, developer relations, and customer success teams to prioritize the SDK roadmap and gather feedback.

• Establish engineering best practices for SDK testing, versioning strategies, backward compatibility, and automated CI/CD pipelines.

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering roles with a proven track record of remaining technically hands-on while leading teams.

• Multi-language proficiency in shipping production services from scratch using languages such as Kotlin, Java, Go, Rust, or Python.

• Experience building SDKs or enterprise integration solutions across multiple programming languages.

• Technical leadership skills with the ability to make architectural decisions while managing career development and mentoring team members.

• Expertise in enterprise security, including authentication flows (OAuth, SAML), API security, and compliance requirements.

• Streaming Domain Knowledge: Experience with or a quick grasp of streaming concepts such as codecs, protocols, and latency optimization.

• Developer Advocacy: Experience balancing technical excellence with a "developer advocate" mindset to meet business objectives and timelines.

• Cross-language depth: Specific experience in supporting SDKs across diverse environments (Go, Rust, Python) on top of a core Java/Kotlin foundation.

• Languages: Kotlin (core for integration services), Golang, and Rust.

• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes.

• Developer Tools: GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, API documentation tools.

• Monitoring: DataDog.

We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and life outside of work.

• Compensation: Competitive base salary, performance-based incentives or bonuses (where applicable), and equity participation.

• Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions, retirement savings with company matching, paid parental leave, and inclusive family-building benefits.

• Work-Life Balance: Flexible paid time off, company-wide seasonal breaks, and support for flexible work arrangements that enable sustainable performance.

• Career Development: Opportunities for continuous learning and growth through on-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and access to internal learning and development programs.

We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging and respect, where diverse perspectives are actively sought and valued. Our multidisciplinary environment provides ample opportunity for continuous growth - working alongside humble, empowered, and ambitious colleagues ready to tackle epic challenges.

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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