Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Ready to join the AQ era?

SandboxAQ is solving challenging problems with AI + Quantum for positive impact. We partner with global leaders in government, academia, and the private sector to identify applications that would benefit from quantum-based applications to current and future commercial challenges. We engage with customers early and throughout the development process to improve market fit.

Our team’s unique approach enables cross-pollination across a diverse range of fields, from physics, computer science, neuroscience, mathematics, cryptography, natural sciences and more! Our success comes from coalescing diverse talent to create an environment where experimental thinking and collaboration yield breakthrough AI + Quantum solutions. Join a culture where thought leadership, diverse talent, employee engagement, and technological impact will create the next tech uproar.

We are deeply committed to education as a means to advance quantum solutions and computing initiatives. We invest in future talent through internship programs, research papers, developer tools, textbooks, educational talks/events and partnerships with universities/talent hubs to attract multi-disciplinary talent. Our hope is to inspire people from all walks of life to be prepared for the quantum era and encourage a path in STEM.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a strong background in AWS/GCP cloud platform to play a key role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud-based systems and applications The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in designing, implementing, troubleshooting and managing AWS infrastructure, along with a passion for automation, continuous improvement, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. The candidate will be part of a diverse team consisting of software engineers and cryptographers where they will play a key role in the efficient and effective enablement of the technologies being developed.

What You’ll Do

• In this role, you will play a crucial part in managing and optimizing our GCP/AWS infrastructure, employing Terraform and other standard SRE expertise
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems
• Deploy, support, and monitor new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks
• Use scale testing to measure, tune and optimize system performance
• Enhance, architect, author, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability and security of SandboxAQ services
• Build and run systems, infrastructure and applications through automation
• Participate in on-call duties

About You

• Strong sense of ownership, customer service, and integrity proven through clear communication
• Experience in managing and scaling distributed systems in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment
• Experience with deploying, supporting and supervising new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
• Passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes using automation to improve them through repeated iteration
• Confirmed ability to write programs using a high-level programming language like: Python, Java, Go or Perl
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience handling large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management systems like: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Salt
• Understanding of the Linux Operating System, including Kernel, Memory, Process, Threads, Static / Shared Libraries, IPC, Signals
• Experience with Kubernetes, Nginx, Envoy, Prometheus, and/or Docker
• Understanding of standard networking protocols and components such as: HTTP, DNS, ECMP, TCP/IP, ICMP, the OSI Model, Subnetting and Load Balancing strategies
• BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent employment

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Bazel a plus
• Experience with FedRAMP/AWS Governance cloud is a plus

SandboxAQ welcomes all.