Staff Software Engineer, System Orchestration & Reliability

Entangled Future; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

IonQ in Oxford, United Kingdom is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the System Orchestration team within System Software. This hands-on role focuses on building and operating software that calibrates systems, decides next steps, and records actions for our quantum computers.

You will work with runtime, systems, and operator teams, contributing to a fault-tolerant control plane and scalable deployment practices to keep machines busy and productive.

Responsibilities

• Take on the problems that span the whole control plane - the durability and recovery contracts the rest of the design rests on.
• Make a machine's own assessment of its readiness something the rest of the control plane can rely on.
• Do the deep diagnosis of failures that only appear on a live system, under real load.
• Remove whole classes of failure across the fleet, rather than instances of them.
• Draw the boundaries between our services, settle them in writing, and move the code across them yourself.
• Make the correctness of a design demonstrable rather than argued.
• Build the tooling and test infrastructure that let the whole team move faster.
• Evolve how our services are deployed and operated as the fleet grows.
• Raise the bar of everyone around you through the code you write and the reviews you give.

Job description

IonQ in Oxford, United Kingdom is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the System Orchestration team within System Software. This hands-on role focuses on building and operating software that calibrates systems, decides next steps, and records actions for our quantum computers.

You will work with runtime, systems, and operator teams, contributing to a fault-tolerant control plane and scalable deployment practices to keep machines busy and productive.