Senior Platform Engineer – Quantum Compute Infra & Cloud

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

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid medical, dental, vision

Unlimited PTO

401K company matching

Short- and long-term disability

FSA

Dependent care benefits

Life insurance

Drinks, snacks, catered team lunches

Job summary

Atom Computing in Boulder, CO is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the systems powering our quantum computing workloads. This role focuses on infrastructure across on-prem lab environments and cloud platforms, balancing reliability, security, scalability, and cost.

The position requires 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, and is based in the office in Boulder at least 3 days per week in close collaboration with software, hardware, and control

Qualifications

• BS or higher in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years of post-degree experience in infrastructure/platform/systems engineering.
• Completed infrastructure build-out or major platform migration.
• Experience with IaC tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or similar).
• Experience with containerization/orchestration (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes).
• Hybrid environments spanning on-prem and cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Networking fundamentals, Linux administration, and CI/CD pipeline design.
• Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent).

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 observability across on-prem and cloud.
• Establish and enforce security, access control, and compliance standards (e.g., 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

Cloud platforms

Systems thinking

Security & compliance

On-call & incident response

Education

BS or advanced CS degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Pulumi

Docker

Kubernetes

Proxmox

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Atom Computing in Boulder, CO is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the systems powering our quantum computing workloads. This role focuses on infrastructure across on-prem lab environments and cloud platforms, balancing reliability, security, scalability, and cost.

The position requires 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, and is based in the office in Boulder at least 3 days per week in close collaboration with software, hardware, and control