Staff DevSecOps Engineer - Platform & Automation

Ionq; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 187,944 - 246,068; Full time

Job summary

IonQ in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Quantum Platform Network Security Engineering Team. You will own the software factory, set its roadmap, and guide architecture and tooling decisions so every product team ships securely through self-service pipelines.

You will stay hands-on by writing pipeline code, building IaC modules, configuring security scans, managing dependencies, and operating release infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of production engineering experience with recent hands-on work.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction — own the software-factory roadmap and the architecture and tooling decisions behind it, and bring the organization along with you, so that every service builds, tests, scans, signs, and deploys through self-service, with no manual gates beyond code review and release approval.
• Make security the fast path — embed scanning and policy enforcement into every pipeline stage so secure delivery is the default, not a bottleneck.
• Run release management — operate the release train (versioning, environment promotion) and the release gate, and the expedited hotfix pipeline fast but fully gated.
• Keep dependencies and the supply chain healthy — automate dependency updates, track freshness, generate SBOMs, and verify artifact provenance.
• Build and improve the internal developer platform — deliver self-service capabilities that let product teams ship quickly and safely.
• Engineer infrastructure as code — write and test production modules with the same rigor product teams apply to application code.
• Operate security and compliance — run vulnerability scanning, drive findings to closure within security-based service-level targets and keep audit evidence continuously current.
• Automate with agents — build and operate agentic workflows for pipeline triage, dependency orchestration, and routine support, and enforce guardrails for autonomous actions.
• Scale the team and broaden impact — mentor engineers at different seniority level, raise the bar through standards, review, and golden paths, and align Architecture, SRE, Cloud Operations, and Product Development behind the roadmap.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Security in pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Automation scripting

Job description

IonQ in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Quantum Platform Network Security Engineering Team. You will own the software factory, set its roadmap, and guide architecture and tooling decisions so every product team ships securely through self-service pipelines.

You will stay hands-on by writing pipeline code, building IaC modules, configuring security scans, managing dependencies, and operating release infrastructure.