10 hours ago
Base Salary
$152k - $228k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the software-factory roadmap and technical direction, including architecture, tooling decisions, standards, and golden paths.
- Build and operate shared CI/CD capabilities for reusable build, test, scan, sign, and deployment workflows.
- Embed vulnerability scanning, security policies, risk thresholds, and automated release decisions throughout pipelines.
- Operate versioning, environment promotion, release gates, and expedited but gated hotfix pipelines.
- Automate dependency updates, dependency health tracking, SBOM generation, artifact signing, and provenance verification.
- Build self-service internal developer-platform capabilities for environment provisioning, onboarding, documentation, and support.
- Author and test production infrastructure-as-code modules and enforce policy-as-code across cloud and hybrid environments.
- Operate vulnerability management, identity and access operations, secrets lifecycle management, and continuously updated compliance evidence.
- Build agentic workflows for pipeline triage, dependency orchestration, and routine support while enforcing autonomous-action guardrails.
- Mentor engineers and align Architecture, SRE, Cloud Operations, and Product Development around the platform roadmap.
Requirements
- 8+ years of production engineering experience with recent hands-on work.
- Recent hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipeline platforms at production scale.
- Practical experience configuring security scanning in pipelines and driving vulnerabilities to closure within deadlines.
- Experience authoring and testing infrastructure-as-code with production modules.
- Demonstrated ownership of release, dependency, or vulnerability-management outcomes with measurable results.
- Fluency in scripting and automation with a focus on eliminating manual toil.
- Preferred qualifications include supply-chain security involving signing, SBOMs, provenance, or SLSA; internal developer-platform design; release-gate or release-train ownership; and agentic delivery automation such as AWS Agent Core or equivalent with AI or LLM security practice.
Benefits
- Base, bonus, equity, and benefit options are included in the total compensation package.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans are offered.
- Matching 401(k), unlimited PTO, and paid holidays are provided.
- Parental and adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend are available.
- The role is based in Santa Clara, California, with the option to work remotely a few days per week.
- Travel is expected to be up to 25%.
About IonQ
IonQ builds trapped-ion quantum computers and offers access to them via major cloud platforms and direct systems for enterprise and research users. The public company (NYSE: IONQ), founded in 2015 and headquartered in College Park, Maryland, sells quantum hardware, cloud services, and development tools used in areas like materials modeling, optimization, and machine learning. Its systems are available through AWS Braket, Microsoft Azure Quantum, and Google Cloud Marketplace.