IonQ
Senior Staff DevOps Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States · Staff+ · Contract
Work authorization required$216k-$283kDetected 10 hours ago
Code ReviewAWSCI/CDDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringLLMsCybersecurityNetwork SecuritySOC OperationsFinancial ModelingSupply ChainLogistics
About the role
- Pipeline security and policy - scanning strategy, security gates, risk thresholds, and automated go/no-go decisioning.
- Release engineering and governance - the release train (versioning, environment promotion), the release gate with risk assessment, and an expedited, still-gated hotfix pipeline for emergency production changes.
- Dependency management and supply-chain security - dependency health, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation, artifact signing, and provenance.
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.
- Build and improve the internal developer platform - deliver self-service capabilities that let product teams ship quickly and safely.
- 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.
- CI/CD pipeline platform - the shared build, test, scan, sign, and deploy platform, with reusable templates and golden-path standards.
- Internal developer platform - self-service environment provisioning, onboarding, documentation, and the developer support model.
- 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
- 12+ years of production engineering experience with recent hands-on work.
- Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Nice to have
- Supply-chain security depth (signing, SBOMs, provenance, SLSA).
- 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.
- We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect.
- US Technical Jobs.
- The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions.
- US Non-Technical Jobs.
- Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used
Skills
- In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance.
- IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before.
- On-premises and hybrid operations - operational consistency between cloud and on-premises systems, where applicable.
Compensation
- Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available.
Benefits
- will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific
- Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend.
- Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment.
- We are committed to equity and justice.
- office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity.
Visa & Work Authorization
- export control and government contract restrictions
This listing is sourced directly from IonQ's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.