PsiQuantum is on a mission to build the first commercially useful quantum computer to solve humanity. Backed by Founders Fund and Redpoint.
About the role
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Observability team. You will wire up OpenTelemetry instrumentation and collection, run and scale Prometheus and Grafana, and turn raw signals into dashboards and alerts that people trust. A large part of the job is working with hardware teams: deciding what their devices should report, and getting that data off the device and into the platform reliably. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of professional software, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering experience, including significant time building and operating observability systems in production
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related technical discipline is required
- Deep hands-on experience with Prometheus and Grafana, including PromQL, recording and alerting rules, Alertmanager, exporters, dashboard design, and running both reliably at scale
- Production experience with OpenTelemetry, including the Collector, OTLP, SDK and automatic instrumentation, and semantic conventions
- Strong programming skills in Python and at least one of Go or Rust, with the ability to write production-quality exporters, Collector components, and automation rather than only configuring off-the-shelf tools
- Solid knowledge of Linux and networking fundamentals, including processes, filesystems, resource limits, DNS, TCP/IP, and TLS, and experience debugging distributed systems from the host up
More about this role
PsiQuantum’s mission is to build the first useful quantum computers—machines capable of delivering the breakthroughs the field has long promised. Since our founding in 2016, our singular focus has been to build and deploy million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum systems.
Quantum computers harness the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems that even the most advanced supercomputers or AI systems will never reach. Their impact will span energy, pharmaceuticals, finance, agriculture, transportation, materials, and other foundational industries.
Our architecture and approach is based on silicon photonics. By leveraging the advanced semiconductor manufacturing industry—including partners like GlobalFoundries—we use the same high-volume processes that already produce billions of chips for telecom and consumer electronics. Photonics offers natural advantages for scale: photons don’t feel heat, are immune to electromagnetic interference, and integrate with existing cryogenic cooling and standard fiber-optic infrastructure.
In 2024, PsiQuantum announced government-funded projects to support the build-out of our first utility-scale quantum computers in Brisbane, Australia, and Chicago,...
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