Senior Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability

Want to help us build the world's largest and most precise quantum computing platform? We trap atoms in a vacuum chamber and manipulate them with lasers to perform calculations that we intend to scale beyond the reach of today's supercomputers. Unfortunately, the lasers don’t prevent bugs. We’re looking for our first site reliability engineer to help increase performance, decrease latency, and ensure that the world’s best quantum computers have the best possible uptime.  

Responsibilities:

• Create the reliability engineering function at IonQ! You’ll manage, create and support infrastructure, instrumentation, and tooling for both our product and the engineering teams. You’ll be key in providing reliable services to our customers, and a force multiplier for our engineers by helping us eliminate toil and scale our systems sustainably.
• Maintain monitoring and alerting systems deployed on kubernetes (both self-managed on-prem and in the cloud) and on Linux workstations.

You’d be a good fit with:

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years experience in either of site reliability engineering or system administration 
• Experience with virtualized and containerized environments
• Experience operating and debugging Unix/Linux OS internals (e.g., filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN).
• Experience with a Windows environment/powershell is a nice plus
• Strong interest in security
• Strongly capable in a scripting language of your choice (shell, Python, etc.)
• Able to identify processes in need of automation quickly, and automate them
• Able (and excited) to mentor junior engineers

You’d be a great fit with:

• 5+ years experience in software development
• 5+ years experience with Terraform, kubernetes, and/or VMware
• You’ve been responsible for large-scale distributed systems, or an HPC workload
• Familiarity both with GCP and AWS
• Proven experience with scaling databases and web applications