Senior Platform Architect | Remote, Lead & Mentor

SandboxAQ; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career-defining work

Competitive compensation

Equity participation

Remote-friendly policy

Learning & growth programs

Job summary

SandboxAQ is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for the Platform & Infrastructure team. You will drive architectural strategy, scale core services, and mentor a growing engineering group to deliver reliable, performant AI infrastructure across compute, storage, and networking.

You will partner with product, research, and security to align infrastructure with SandboxAQ’s mission. You will shape the technical roadmap, break down systemic problems, and elevate engineering maturity while operating in a

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience designing and scaling distributed systems.
• 5+ years of leadership guiding high-impact engineering teams and setting technical strategy.
• Expertise in cloud-native infrastructure, GCP preferred, and Kubernetes at scale.
• Experience with GPU/ML infrastructure for training, data-generation, and inference workloads.
• Strong ability to decompose complex problems into incremental, actionable architectural designs.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural strategy and design resilient, distributed infrastructure for growing AI workloads.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, promoting high standards and continuous learning.
• Diagnose bottlenecks and translate complex infra challenges into clear technical requirements.
• Develop foundational platform services to improve developer experience and reduce operational overhead.
• Collaborate with product, research, and security to ensure secure, high-performing infrastructure.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Engineering leadership

Cloud-native infra (GCP)

Kubernetes at scale

GPU/ML infra

Architectural decomposition

Job description

SandboxAQ is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for the Platform & Infrastructure team. You will drive architectural strategy, scale core services, and mentor a growing engineering group to deliver reliable, performant AI infrastructure across compute, storage, and networking.

You will partner with product, research, and security to align infrastructure with SandboxAQ’s mission. You will shape the technical roadmap, break down systemic problems, and elevate engineering maturity while operating in a