Senior Platform Engineer - Remote AWS & CI/CD Lead

Front Door Defense; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

PsiQuantum in Chicago, IL is seeking a Senior Software Platform Engineer with ownership of the ASET infrastructure. The role focuses on AWS-based platform engineering, Terraform, CI/CD and reliability, with remote eligibility and a path to shape deployment pipelines for quantum researchers.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in platform engineering or SRE, strong AWS expertise, and experience with IaC and modern CI/CD tools.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles
• Production AWS experience with ECS/EKS, VPCs, and multi-account networks
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform (or Pulumi/CDK) in production
• CI/CD expertise with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Own AWS infrastructure end-to-end and shape its evolution
• Reduce deployment friction to accelerate feature delivery
• Harden systems: IAM, container images, and auth flows
• Collaborate with platform engineers to leverage HPC/GPU resources
• Make deployments faster to roll out and easier to rollback
• Lead incident response and post-mortems when needed

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevOps

SRE

AWS

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi/CDK

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Job description

PsiQuantum in Chicago, IL is seeking a Senior Software Platform Engineer with ownership of the ASET infrastructure. The role focuses on AWS-based platform engineering, Terraform, CI/CD and reliability, with remote eligibility and a path to shape deployment pipelines for quantum researchers.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in platform engineering or SRE, strong AWS expertise, and experience with IaC and modern CI/CD tools.