SandboxAQ is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for its Cybersecurity Group to lead the SDK and Integrations team. This hands-on role involves designing and building SDKs for seamless integration with third-party enterprise tools, owning the developer experience, collaborating with customers, and driving technical decisions. The manager will also mentor engineers and establish best practices for SDK development.

Must Have

• Lead and grow SDK and Integrations team while remaining hands-on with code reviews, architecture decisions, and critical feature development.
• Design and build SDKs that enable seamless integration between our cybersecurity platform and third-party enterprise tools.
• Own the developer experience end-to-end: from API design to documentation to integration, deployment guides.
• Collaborate with enterprise customers and partners to understand integration requirements and prioritize our SDK roadmap.
• Drive technical decisions around SDK architecture, including versioning strategies, backward compatibility, and multi-platform support.
• Mentor and coach engineers on both technical skills and career development while fostering a culture of quality, testing, and documentation.
• Partner with developer relations and customer success teams to gather feedback and continuously improve SDK usability.
• Establish and maintain engineering best practices for SDK testing, CI/CD pipelines, and release management.
• Build relationships with key enterprise customers and act as their technical advocate internally.
• 8+ years in software engineering roles with experience leading engineering teams and remaining technically hands-on.
• Proven track record of building and shipping production services from scratch in Rust, Golang, Python, C++, Kotlin or Java.
• Built and shipped production SDKs, APIs, or enterprise integration solutions across multiple programming languages.
• Ability to quickly grasp streaming concepts (codecs, protocols, latency optimisation), or already have experience in this domain.
• Experience with enterprise authentication flows (OAuth, SAML), API security, and compliance requirements.
• Demonstrate strong technical leadership skills with the ability to make architectural decisions while managing and developing team members.
• Balance hands-on technical contributions with people management and strategic planning.

Good to Have

• Cross-language experience (Kotlin/Java, Go, Rust, and Python).
• Think like a developer advocate while balancing technical excellence with business objectives and delivery timelines.
• Excel at cross-functional collaboration and can translate between technical constraints and business requirements.

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive, equitable, and transparent compensation.
• Continuously benchmark salaries and total compensation to premium markets.
• Individual pay determined by job-related skills, experience, education, and geographic location.
• Focus on pay equity and future salary progression.
• Annual discretionary bonuses (eligible).
• Equity (eligible).
• Cultivated environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact.
• Deep investment in people.
• Thriving, global workforce.
• Multidisciplinary environment for continuous growth.
• Community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact.
• Committed to fostering a culture of belonging and respect, where diverse perspectives are actively sought and valued.
• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in job application procedures.

Senior Engineering Manager

Location

United States, Canada

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Remote

Department

Cybersecurity

Compensation

• $233K – $326K

At SandboxAQ, we are committed to competitive, equitable, and transparent compensation; we continuously benchmark our salaries and total compensation to premium markets to ensure our competitiveness. Individual pay within the above range is determined by job-related skills, experience, education, and geographic location.

With a focus on pay equity and ensuring opportunity for future salary progression, our typical practice is to hire within the first half of the base salary range for a given role and level. This approach allows us to reward performance and increasing expertise consistently as your career develops with us.

We use two geographic pay tiers to reflect the pay differences in local markets:

• Tier 1: Applies to candidates located within 75 miles of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York.
• Tier 2: Applies to candidates located in all other Locations in the US.

About SandboxAQ

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.

About the Role

The Cybersecurity Group at SandboxAQ is looking for an Engineering Manager 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.

The team is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager who is strongly focused on building SDK and enterprise integration solutions for cybersecurity platforms. This role is pivotal in advancing our security integrations to support seamless connectivity with third-party tools and other enterprise security platforms. The successful candidate will lead the technical strategy for developer-facing SDKs while remaining hands-on with code and architecture decisions.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow our SDK and Integrations team while remaining hands-on with code reviews, architecture decisions, and critical feature development.
• Design and build SDKs that enable seamless integration between our cybersecurity platform and third-party enterprise tools.
• Own the developer experience end-to-end: from API design to documentation to integration, deployment guides.
• Collaborate with enterprise customers and partners to understand integration requirements and prioritize our SDK roadmap.
• Drive technical decisions around SDK architecture, including versioning strategies, backward compatibility, and multi-platform support.
• Mentor and coach engineers on both technical skills and career development while fostering a culture of quality, testing, and documentation.
• Partner with developer relations and customer success teams to gather feedback and continuously improve SDK usability.
• Establish and maintain engineering best practices for SDK testing, CI/CD pipelines, and release management.
• Build relationships with key enterprise customers and act as their technical advocate internally.

About You

• You have 8+ years in software engineering roles with experience leading engineering teams and remaining technically hands-on.
• You have a proven track record of building and shipping production services from scratch in Rust, Golang, Python, C++, Kotlin or Java. Note that our integration services are written in Kotlin.
• We value cross-language experience overall. Indeed, on top of Kotlin/Java, our SDK will have to support other languages like Go, Rust, and Python.
• You've built and shipped production SDKs, APIs, or enterprise integration solutions across multiple programming languages.
• You can quickly grasp streaming concepts (codecs, protocols, latency optimisation), or you already have experience in this domain.
• You think like a developer advocate while balancing technical excellence with business objectives and delivery timelines.
• You excel at cross-functional collaboration and can translate between technical constraints and business requirements.
• You have experience with enterprise authentication flows (OAuth, SAML), API security, and compliance requirements.
• You demonstrate strong technical leadership skills with the ability to make architectural decisions while managing and developing team members.
• You balance hands-on technical contributions with people management and strategic planning.

Our Current Stack

• Languages: Kotlin, Golang and Rust
• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes
• Developer Tools: GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, API documentation tools
• Monitoring: DataDog

The US base salary range for this full-time position is expected to be $233k - $326k per year. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This role may be eligible for annual discretionary bonuses and equity.

SandboxAQ Welcomes All

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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