IonQ delivers trapped ion quantum computing systems, cloud access, and enterprise solutions for real-world quantum applications. Backed by NEA, SoftBank VF and GV.
About the role
The Platform Engineering team builds, secures, and operates scalable infrastructure for cloud-managed SaaS products with on-premises components deployed at customer sites.
What they're looking for
- 7+ years of production engineering experience with recent hands-on reliability work
- Hands-on, recent experience operating large-scale, fault-tolerant production systems on AWS or GCP
- Observability ownership — has instrumented production systems and governed service-level objectives and error budgets, not only installed dashboards
- Resilience practice — has designed and executed failure experiments or disaster-recovery exercises with real failover validation
- Incident command — has personally commanded serious SEV1/SEV2 incidents and driven root cause through to a systemic fix
- Demonstrated ownership of reliability outcomes with measurable results, such as availability, mean time to recovery, and error-budget adherence
More about this role
IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance .
Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before.
Travel: Up to 25%
The Platform Engineering team builds, secures, and operates...
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