Site Reliability Engineer, PsiQuantum
$145-165k
+ Equity
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Quantum computer builder
Open for applications
Quantum computer builder
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$145-165k
+ Equity
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build and deploy useful, fault tolerant quantum computers.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or other related technical field
- 5+ years in an SRE, DevOps, or Production Engineering role supporting distributed systems in production
- Hands‑on expertise with observability tools: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo (or equivalent)
- Proven track record designing dashboards and alerts around golden signals and (Utilization, Saturation, Errors) USE and RED (Rate, Errors, Duration) methodologies
- Solid scripting/automation skills in Python and Bash; familiarity with GitLab CI pipelines
- Operational experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads
- Working knowledge of AWS services, networking fundamentals, and load balancing
- Experience running incident response and writing actionable post‑mortems
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and configuration management
- Exposure to regulated environments and multi‑region architectures is a plus
- Strong communication and collaboration skills; comfortable acting as a generalist across infrastructure, application, and data layers
What the job involves
- Join the OS/Platform team as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and keep our services healthy, observable, and fast
- Partnering with the Platform Engineering group, you’ll own the day‑to‑day operation of our monitoring stack—Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo—crafting dashboards that surface golden signals and drive real‑time insight
- You’ll codify reliability through SLIs/SLOs, automate runbooks in Python, and lead incident response to maintain world‑class uptime across both on‑prem and AWS environments
- Define, implement, and iterate on Service Level Indicators & Service Level Objectives (SLIs/SLOs) and error budgets for critical services
- Build and maintain Grafana dashboards that visualize golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, saturation) for engineers and stakeholders
- Operate and tune our observability pipeline (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo) to ensure scalable, low‑latency telemetry ingestion and alerting
- Drive incident response: triage, mitigate, perform post‑incident reviews, and implement preventive actions
- Develop automation and self‑service tooling in Python/Bash to streamline alerts, runbooks, and operational tasks
- Collaborate with Platform and Product teams on capacity planning, performance testing, and change management
- Improve CI/CD health checks and release safety nets within GitLab
- Contribute to infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible) for monitoring stack deployments and upgrades
Our take
Quantum computing will change the world more than any other imminent technological development, and PsiQuantum sits at the forefront of the charge to build the first quantum computer that will actually work.
The company is unique for the scale of their ambitions. Rather than focusing on what they term “intermediate milestones” like building smaller proof of concept systems, PsiQuantum builds the first large-scale, error-corrected computer, using photonics to deliver over 1,000,000 qubits (current quantum machines have yet to cross the 1,000 qubit mark).
There are plenty of companies building quantum computers, including the likes of IBM and Google, but these prototypical machines lack the size to correct errors, making them exponentially less useful than what PsiQuantum aims for. While other companies operate in the same sphere, PsiQuantum is unequivocally a leader in its field, founded by world-class academics and recently securing $1B in funding, making it the largest funding round for a quantum computing startup.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2025
$1bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jun 2024
$125m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $2.7bn
Company benefits
- Financial & Retirement: 401(k) with company match, equity grants, and access to financial wellness tools and planning resources.
- Health: Competitive health coverage for you and your dependents that go beyond your standard medical, dental & vision.
- Wellness: $200 quarterly health reimbursement, 12 therapy + 6 coaching sessions with Modern Health for you and depndents, and annual membership to Care.com.
- Time Off: Discretionary Time Off (DTO) for full-time employees in addition to federal holidays and an end-of-year company shut-down.
- Family Leave: 12 weeks of paid parental leave with the support of a dedicated leave consultant.
- Flexible WOrk: Work in office, hybrid, or remote depending on your team and location.
Company HQ
Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Jeremy O'Brien
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to founding PsiQuantum, researched and taught at universities across the world, including Bristol, Stanford, Osaka, Sydney and Queensland.
Mark Thompson
(Co-Founder & Chief Technologist)Previously worked as an R&D Engineer at Toshiba and was a research fellow at the University of Cambridge. Is currently a Professor of Quantum Photonics at Bristol University as well as Chief Technologist at PsiQuantum.
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