Staff DevOps Engineer

IonQ, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

IonQ, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to join the Quantum Platform - Engineering & Technology team. This lead-level, full-time role focuses on building and securing scalable cloud infrastructure for SaaS products, with a hybrid office/remote arrangement.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in production engineering, deep CI/CD expertise, and strong skills in security-embedded pipelines, IaC, and release management within a developer-first platform.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of production engineering experience with hands-on work.
• Hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipeline platforms at production scale.
• Security embedded into pipelines as a practitioner with vulnerability closure experience.
• Infrastructure-as-Code authored and tested with production modules.
• Demonstrated ownership of release, dependency, or vulnerability-management outcomes.
• Scripting and automation fluency with focus on minimizing manual toil.
• Supply-chain security depth including SBOMs, provenance, and SLSA.
• Internal developer platform or self-service design with measurable adoption.

Aufgaben

• Set the technical direction for the software factory and own its roadmap.
• Define architecture and tooling decisions shaping how product teams ship features.
• Mentor and raise the bar through standards and reviews.

Kenntnisse

Production engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Security in pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Release management

Scripting & automation

Supply-chain security

Self-service platform

Tools

AWS Agent Core

Jobbeschreibung

Staff DevOps Engineer at IonQ, Santa Clara, California, United States (remote). A lead-level full time position in the Quantum Platform - Engineering & Technology team, listed under software engineering.

About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before.

Location: This role is based at our Santa Clara, CA office, with the option to work a few days a week remotely. Travel: Up to 25% Job ID: 1861 The Role: We are looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Quantum Platform Network Security Engineering Team. The Platform Engineering team builds, secures, and operates scalable infrastructure for cloud-managed SaaS products with on-premises components deployed at customer sites. The DevOps discipline owns the "software factory" — the end-to-end system that takes code from commit to production securely, reliably, and fast, with security embedded into every stage. As a Staff DevOps Engineer, you set the technical direction for the software factory. You own its roadmap, make the architecture and tooling decisions that shape how every product team ships, and raise the bar through standards, review, and mentorship

Requirements

• 8+ years of production engineering experience with recent hands-on work.
• Hands-on, recent experience building and operating CI/CD pipeline platforms at production scale.
• Security embedded into pipelines as a practitioner — has personally configured scanning and driven a real vulnerability to closure within a deadline.
• Infrastructure-as-Code authored and tested, with production modules to show, not only consumed.
• Demonstrated ownership of release, dependency, or vulnerability-management outcomes with measurable results.
• Scripting and automation fluency, with a clear bias toward removing manual toil.
• Supply-chain security depth (signing, SBOMs, provenance, SLSA).
• Internal developer platform or self-service design, measured by adoption.

Nice to Have

• Supply-chain security depth (signing, SBOMs, provenance, SLSA).
• Internal developer platform or self-service design, measured by adoption.
• Release-gate or release-train ownership, including expedited or emergency-change delivery under pressure.
• Agentic delivery automation (AWS Agent Core or equivalent) and AI or LLM security practice.