Senior Platform Engineer - Quantum Compute Infra & Cloud

Atom Computing; Colorado; On-site; USD 195,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company matching

Disability insurance

FSA

Dependent care benefits

Life insurance

Drinks and catered lunches

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Atom Computing seeks a Principal Platform Engineer in Boulder, CO to design and run the systems powering our quantum computing workflows. You will shape infrastructure spanning on-prem labs and cloud platforms, balancing reliability, security, scalability, and cost.

The role requires office presence in Boulder three days per week and close collaboration with software, hardware, and control systems teams. Candidates should have strong IaC, containerization, and observability experience.

Qualifications

• BS or advanced degree in Computer Science.
• 7+ years of post-degree experience in infrastructure/platform/systems engineering.
• Experience building out infrastructure or migrating major platforms.
• Proficient with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi).
• Experience with containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience managing hybrid environments (on-prem and cloud).
• Knowledge of networking, Linux system administration, and CI/CD design.
• Expertise in monitoring, logging, and observability (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 observability across environments.
• Enforce security, access control, and compliance standards (NIST 800-53, SOC2).
• Participate in on-call rotation and drive incident analysis and reliability improvements.
• Evaluate new tooling and balance build-vs-buy decisions with velocity and overhead.

Skills

Infrastructure design

7+ years experience

Security/compliance

Observability

On-call incident response

Education

BS or higher in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Pulumi

Docker

Kubernetes

Proxmox

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

Atom Computing seeks a Principal Platform Engineer in Boulder, CO to design and run the systems powering our quantum computing workflows. You will shape infrastructure spanning on-prem labs and cloud platforms, balancing reliability, security, scalability, and cost.

The role requires office presence in Boulder three days per week and close collaboration with software, hardware, and control systems teams. Candidates should have strong IaC, containerization, and observability experience.