Principal Platform Engineer - Quantum Compute Infra

Atom Computing; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid medical, dental, and vision

401K company matching

Unlimited paid time off

Equity in the company

Drinks, snacks, and catered team meals

Job summary

Atom Computing seeks a Principal Platform Engineer to design and operate systems powering quantum computing workloads. You will build infrastructure across on-prem lab environments and cloud platforms, balancing reliability, security, scalability, and cost while collaborating with software, hardware, and control systems teams.

The role requires in-office presence in Boulder, CO at least 3 days per week and a strong background in infrastructure, IaC, and platform migrations.

Qualifications

• BS or advanced degree in Computer Science.
• 7+ years of post-degree experience as an infrastructure, platform, or systems engineer.
• Experience building infrastructure and performing major platform migrations.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi).
• Experience with containerization/orchestration (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes).
• Experience managing hybrid environments (on‑prem and cloud: AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals, Linux administration, and CI/CD pipeline design.
• Observability and monitoring tooling experience (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain compute infrastructure for quantum control systems.
• Collaborate with software, control systems, and physics teams to meet workload requirements.
• Own infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, and system observability.
• Enforce security, access control, and compliance standards (NIST 800-53, SOC2).
• Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and reliability improvements.
• Evaluate and integrate new infrastructure tooling, balancing build-vs-buy decisions.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Platform engineering

Systems thinking

Networking fundamentals

Linux administration

CI/CD pipeline design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Pulumi

Docker

Podman

Kubernetes

Proxmox

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Atom Computing seeks a Principal Platform Engineer to design and operate systems powering quantum computing workloads. You will build infrastructure across on-prem lab environments and cloud platforms, balancing reliability, security, scalability, and cost while collaborating with software, hardware, and control systems teams.

The role requires in-office presence in Boulder, CO at least 3 days per week and a strong background in infrastructure, IaC, and platform migrations.