Senior Engineering Manager - SandboxAQ

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 our team responsible for generating and ingesting data, both from our own sensors and third-party systems. 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 our sensors, third-party ingestion pipeline and in general frameworks for anyone to process any kind of data, while remaining hands-on with code and architecture decisions.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow our data discovery team while remaining hands-on with code reviews, architecture decisions, and critical feature development.
• Own the roadmap & design of our data ingestion facilities, , including our own passive network analyzer, filesystem scanner and application dynamic tracers.
• Own the developer experience end-to-end: from API design to documentation to integration, deployment guides
• Mentor and coach engineers on both technical skills and career development while fostering a culture of quality, testing, and documentation
• Establish and maintain engineering best practices around testing and scalability
• 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.
• You can quickly grasp streaming concepts (codecs, protocols, latency optimisation), or you already have experience in this domain
• You've built and shipped production SDKs, APIs, or enterprise integration solutions across multiple programming languages
• 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