Staff Software Engineer - Quantum Platform

We don’t just build the world’s best quantum computers–we want them to be usable by everyone, everywhere. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join a cross-functional team building the IonQ Cloud Platform, which connects our customers to our quantum computers via APIs, tools, and partner clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure. You’ll help build key components of the platform in collaboration with our product team, applications team, systems team, and scientists to build the best quantum developer experience for our customers and partners.

Responsibilities:

• Report to Sr Manager of Cloud Engineering, work closely with Infrastructure Engineering, Application Development and Operations teams to provide highly available and fault tolerant cloud services
• Lead the design and implementation of compelling software experiences that appeal to quantum novices and experts alike to promote IonQ's mission
• In collaboration with the Product team and other engineers, design, build, validate, and deploy APIs and capabilities to make quantum computing accessible and useful to novices and experts alike
• Build, extend and maintain our cloud platform
• Participate in on-call rotations

You’d be a good fit with: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
• 7+ years professional experience in software engineering, working in a team environment
• Strong experience with large-scale cloud service platforms, and the design of scalable and robust services in the real world
• Comfort with distributed systems
• Experience in programming languages like Go, JavaScript, TypeScript and/or Python (multiple programming languages a plus)
• Database experience (e.g. MongoDB)
• Experience working in a cloud native environment (AWS/GCP/Azure, K8s/serverless)
• Strong written and oral communication, excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills

You’d be a great fit with:

• 10+ years of professional software experience
• 3+ years working with kubernetes
• 3+ years working with NoSQL and SQL databases
• OAuth, OpenID, SAML based authentication experience
• Prior experience developing on Google Cloud Platform