Senior Staff DevOps Engineer

IonQ; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 216,136 - 282,978; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home‑technology stipend

401(k) matching

Unlimited PTO & holidays

Parental/adoption leave

Job summary

IonQ is seeking a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer for the Quantum Platform Network Security Engineering Team to build, secure, and operate scalable infrastructure for cloud‑managed SaaS products with on‑premises components.

You will drive secure delivery across the CI/CD stack, embed security into every pipeline stage, and own release governance from development to production. Mentorship and cross‑team alignment will be key as you scale our platform to meet customer needs.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of production engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipeline platforms at production scale.
• Security embedded into pipelines as a practitioner – vulnerabilities identified and resolved.
• Infrastructure‑as‑code authored and tested with production modules.
• Ownership of release, dependency, or vulnerability‑management outcomes with measurable results.
• Strong scripting and automation fluency, with a bias toward eliminating manual toil.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction for the software‑factory roadmap, architecture and tooling decisions.
• Embed security scanning and policy enforcement into every pipeline stage to make secure delivery the default.
• Operate the release train and release gate, including an expedited hotfix pipeline that remains fully gated.
• Automate dependency updates, generate SBOMs, and verify artifact provenance.
• Build and improve the internal developer platform to deliver self‑service capabilities for rapid, safe product shipping.
• Engineer infrastructure as code with reusable modules and policy‑as‑code enforcement across cloud and hybrid deployments.
• Run vulnerability scanning, drive findings to closure within SLAs, and keep audit evidence current.
• Build and operate agentic workflows for pipeline triage and routine support, enforcing guardrails for autonomous actions.
• Mentor engineers, raise standards, and align Architecture, SRE, Cloud Operations, and Product Development behind the roadmap.

Skills

Production engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Security in pipelines

Infrastructure as code

Release management

Scripting & automation

Job description

Company Overview

IonQ, Inc. is a leading quantum computing company that delivers integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. The company’s IonQ Tempo quantum computers provide high‑performance, cloud‑managed SaaS products and on‑premises components for customers worldwide.

Location & Travel

This role is based onsite at our Santa Clara, CA office. Up to 25% travel is expected.

Role Overview

Senior Staff DevOps Engineer – Quantum Platform Network Security Engineering Team. The team builds, secures, and operates scalable infrastructure for cloud‑managed SaaS products with on‑premises components deployed at customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction for the software‑factory roadmap, architecture and tooling decisions, and align the organization to enable self‑service delivery.
• Embed security scanning and policy enforcement into every pipeline stage to make secure delivery the default.
• Operate the release train and release gate, including an expedited hotfix pipeline that remains fully gated.
• Automate dependency updates, generate SBOMs, and verify artifact provenance.
• Build and improve the internal developer platform to deliver self‑service capabilities for rapid, safe product shipping.
• Engineer infrastructure as code with reusable, tested modules and policy‑as‑code enforcement across cloud and hybrid deployments.
• Run vulnerability scanning, drive findings to closure within service‑level targets, and keep audit evidence current.
• Build and operate agentic workflows for pipeline triage and routine support, enforcing guardrails for autonomous actions.
• Mentor engineers, raise standards, and align Architecture, SRE, Cloud Operations, and Product Development behind the roadmap.

Requirements

• 12+ years of production engineering experience.
• Hands‑on experience building and operating CI/CD pipeline platforms at production scale.
• Security embedded into pipelines as a practitioner – demonstrated configuration of scanning and resolution of vulnerabilities.
• Infrastructure‑as‑code authored and tested with production modules.
• Ownership of release, dependency, or vulnerability‑management outcomes with measurable results.
• Strong scripting and automation fluency, with a bias toward eliminating manual toil.

Preferred Qualifications

• Depth in supply‑chain security: signing, SBOMs, provenance, SLSA.
• Experience with internal developer platform or self‑service design, with measurable adoption.
• Ownership of release‑gate or release‑train processes, including expedited emergency‑change delivery.
• Agentic delivery automation (e.g., AWS Agent Core) and AI/LLM security practice.

Compensation

Base salary range: $216,136 – $282,978. Total compensation includes base, bonus, equity, and benefit options.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans; 401(k) matching; unlimited paid time off and holidays; parental/adoption leave; legal insurance; home‑technology stipend; and additional benefits as described on our career site.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

At IonQ, we are committed to fair treatment and equal opportunity for all employees. We welcome diverse perspectives and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

We encourage you to apply.