Senior Software Engineer - Backend

We don’t just build the world’s best quantum computers–we want them to be usable by everyone, everywhere. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join a cross-functional team building the IonQ Cloud Platform, which connects our customers to our quantum computers via APIs, tools, and partner clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure. You’ll help build key components of the platform in collaboration with our product team, applications team, systems team, and scientists to build the best quantum developer experience for our customers and partners.

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to Sr Manager of Cloud Engineering, as a Senior Software Engineer you will work closely with Infrastructure Engineering, Application Development and Operations teams to provide highly available and fault tolerant cloud services
• In collaboration with the Product team and other engineers, design, build, validate, and deploy APIs and capabilities to make quantum computing accessible and useful to novices and experts alike
• Build, extend and maintain our cloud platform
• Participate in on-call rotations
  
  

You’d be a good fit with: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
• 5+ years professional experience in software engineering, working in a team environment
• Strong experience with large-scale cloud service platforms, and the design of scalable and robust services in the real world
• Experience programming in Python is a must
• Multiple programming languages like Python, Go, or JavaScript is essential
• Experience in building SDKs, libraries and DX (Developer Experience)
• Experience working in a cloud native environment (AWS/GCP/Azure, K8s/serverless)
• Strong written and oral communication, excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills
  
  

You’d be a great fit with:

• 7+ years of professional software experience
• 3+ years working with kubernetes
• 3+ years working with SQL databases
• OAuth, OpenID, SAML based authentication experience
• Prior experience developing on Google Cloud Platform
  
  

Location: This role can work onsite or hybrid from one of our offices located in Bothell, WA, or College Park, MD, or can be remote for the right candidate.
Travel: Less than 10%

The approximate base salary range for this position is $141,670 - $185,482.