Senior Staff DevOps Engineer: Quantum Platform Security

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

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.