Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Platform

IonQ

full-time

Posted on: 9/17/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $141,670 - $185,482 per year

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CloudKubernetesLinuxPythonTCP/IPTerraformUnixVMware

About the role

Be the first site reliability engineer at IonQ dedicated to the cloud team: create, support, and manage infrastructure, instrumentation, and tooling for product and engineering teams
Provide reliable services to customers and act as a force multiplier for engineers by eliminating toil and scaling systems sustainably
Increase performance, decrease latency, and ensure high uptime for IonQ's quantum computing platform
Maintain monitoring and alerting systems deployed on Kubernetes (self-managed on-prem and in the cloud) and on Linux workstations
Operate and debug Unix/Linux internals and network issues as needed
Automate manual processes and implement tooling to improve operational efficiency
Mentor junior engineers and drive best practices across the organization
Participate in incident management, resolution, and post-incident analysis
Work onsite or hybrid from College Park, MD or Bothell, WA, or fully remote within the US; travel limited up to 10%

BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
8+ years of professional experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
5+ years experience in site reliability engineering
3+ years experience with Kubernetes
Experience with learning from incidents
Experience with virtualized and containerized environments
Experience operating and debugging Unix/Linux OS internals (e.g., filesystems, inodes, system calls) and/or networking (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN)
Strongly capable in a scripting language of your choice (Shell, Python, etc.)
Able to identify processes in need of automation quickly, and automate them
Able (and excited) to mentor junior engineers
Excellent writer, capable of driving best practices throughout the org
10+ years of experience in software development (preferred)
5+ years of experience with VMware and Terraform (preferred)
Comfort with Google Cloud (preferred)
Experience with scaling databases and applications (preferred)
Experience with deploying bare-metal Kubernetes (preferred)
Experience with incident management and leading incident resolution (preferred)
Experience with incident research and analysis of contributing factors (preferred)
Employment contingent on verifying U.S. Person status for export control and government contracts, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming availability of a license exception