# Staff Site Reliability Engineer at IonQ

- Company: IonQ
- What the company does: IonQ delivers trapped ion quantum computing systems, cloud access, and enterprise solutions for real-world quantum applications. Backed by NEA, SoftBank VF and GV.
- Company website: https://ionq.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-17
- Apply by: 2026-11-01
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ionq/jobs/6193392004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ionq-staff-site-reliability-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Quantum Platform - Network and Security