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About the Role
The SandboxAQ Cybersecurity group is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our API and SDK integration team focused on third-party enterprise customer integrations for our product, AQtive Guard. As a key leader on our team, you will manage and grow a team of engineers while remaining hands-on with architecture decisions and critical feature development that connects our cybersecurity platform with leading security vendors like CrowdStrike, Qualys, and other enterprise security tools. This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of people management, API design, enterprise integration, and distributed systems to shape how our customers consume and integrate our security capabilities into their existing workflows.
You will get to work with and lead a diverse group of engineers, product managers, solution architects, cryptographers, and ML experts to rapidly bring integration solutions to market while ensuring seamless interoperability with the broader cybersecurity ecosystem. The successful candidate will balance technical leadership with team development, driving both the strategic direction of our integration platform and the career growth of team members.
How We Succeed Together
We move fast, build with purpose, and are obsessed with making an impact. Our culture is built for those who want to be at the forefront of innovation, and it's guided by these core principles:
- We are passionate about solving real-world problems for our customers.
- We take deep ownership of our work and hold ourselves to the highest standards of excellence.
- We are a team that stands by our commitments to each other and our customers, building trust through reliability.
- We are proactive and action-oriented, always seeking opportunities to make a difference and drive our mission forward.
- We believe in amplifying our collective impact through collaboration.
- We are dedicated to seeing our projects through to the finish line, ensuring that every detail is accounted for and that our work has a lasting impact.
What You'll Do
You will lead and grow our API and SDK integration team while remaining hands-on with code reviews, architecture decisions, and critical feature development that enables seamless integration between our cybersecurity platform and third-party security tools like CrowdStrike, Qualys, Splunk, and other enterprise security platforms. As part of this role, you'll own the technical strategy for developer-facing SDKs and APIs that abstract complex security operations into intuitive interfaces for enterprise customers, while ensuring your team develops scalable, performant and highly available integration solutions oriented at different enterprise environments, supporting both cloud and on-premises deployments.
You'll guide your team in creating comprehensive integration frameworks that handle authentication, data transformation, error handling, and monitoring across diverse third-party platforms, while establishing engineering best practices for API design, SDK testing, CI/CD pipelines, and release management. The position involves collaborating directly with enterprise customers and third-party vendors to understand integration requirements and prioritize the team's roadmap, while mentoring and coaching engineers on both technical skills and career development to foster a culture of quality, testing, and documentation.
Your responsibilities will include driving technical decisions around API architecture, including versioning strategies, backward compatibility, and multi-platform support, establishing monitoring, observability, and alerting systems for integration health and performance across customer environments, and partnering with developer relations and customer success teams to gather feedback and continuously improve SDK usability. You'll build relationships with key enterprise customers and act as their technical advocate internally, while ensuring the team maintains a sustainable development cycle of automating, deploying, diligently testing and maintaining integration software.
Who You Are
- You have 8+ years in software engineering roles with experience leading engineering teams and remaining technically hands-on with focus on API development and third-party integrations
- You have proficiency in Rust, Kotlin and/or Go with a solid understanding of data structures and concurrency/synchronization for building scalable integration platforms
- You have industry or research knowledge of API design patterns, integration architectures, and enterprise software interoperability
- You have experience managing user-facing software at scale, including availability, observability, and security fundamentals across enterprise environments
- You understand software security principles, including API security, authentication flows (OAuth, SAML), and best practices in developing high-quality, secure integration code
- You have the ability to lead a small team to swiftly iterate and deliver production-quality APIs and SDKs
- You have hands-on experience building and maintaining REST APIs, GraphQL endpoints, or similar integration interfaces
- You understand enterprise integration patterns, including data transformation, error handling, rate limiting, and retry mechanisms
- You can work directly with enterprise customers to gather requirements, troubleshoot integration issues, and ensure successful deployments
- 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
Nice-To-Haves
- Experience with quantum computing concepts, quantum-safe cryptography implementations, or cryptography
- Extensive experience with API and third-party integration, particularly with cybersecurity platforms like CrowdStrike, Qualys, Splunk, or similar enterprise security tools
- Familiar with Kafka and KStreams for real-time event processing and data streaming between integrated systems
- Familiarity with Bazel for building complex, multi-language SDK projects
- Experience with OpenAPI/Swagger specifications and API documentation tooling
- Knowledge of enterprise authentication and authorization systems (LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, OAuth2)
- Previous work with webhook systems, event-driven architectures, and real-time data synchronization
- Understanding of enterprise deployment patterns, including container orchestration and API gateway technologies
- Experience managing distributed engineering teams and working with remote team members
