Staff Software Engineer, Platform

The role

A Staff Engineer will act as a technical leader within the Platform & Infrastructure organization. You will define architectural strategy, mentor junior engineers, and design foundational platform services to support AI workloads.

What you will do

• Define and execute the long-term vision for infrastructure.
• Design resilient, distributed systems for AI workloads.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers.
• Diagnose complex technical bottlenecks and break down infrastructure challenges.
• Design and implement foundational platform services.
• Work with product, research, and security teams to ensure secure and performant infrastructure.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proven track record of designing and scaling complex distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience leading high-impact engineering teams.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and influencing technical strategy at a staff level.
• Expertise in cloud-native infrastructure.
• Expertise in Kubernetes at scale.
• Expertise in GPU/ML infrastructure for large training, data-generation, and inference workloads.
• Experience in GPU scheduling, optimization and high-performance networking.
• Ability to decompose complex technical problems into simplified, incremental, and actionable architectural designs.

Nice to have

• GCP preferred
• Deep proficiency in architectural patterns for high-throughput, low-latency services.
• Experience operating in high-growth environments where infrastructure requirements pivot rapidly.
• 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

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• 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.
• Access to internal learning and development programs.

About the company

SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address global challenges. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022.