Director of Infrastructure Engineering, IonQ

• The ideal candidate is curious about technology and will strive to keep your technical knowledge sharp, while remaining comfortable knowing your greatest impact won’t be as an individual contributor
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Physics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 18+ years of professional experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 10+ years of infrastructure engineering or platform engineering experience
• 5+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience
• Experience with virtualized and containerized environments
• Experience operating and debugging Unix/Linux OS internals (e.g., filesystems, inodes, system calls) or networking (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, network topologies and hardware, SDN)
• Strongly capable in a scripting language of your choice (shell, Python, etc.)
• Able to identify processes in need of automation quickly, and automate them
• Able (and excited) to mentor junior engineers

Desirable

• We are looking for a senior engineering manager to lead our infrastructure engineering team. In this role, you’ll manage and scale our infrastructure and platform engineering functions at IonQ, to both help build a world-class quantum systems platform as well as maintain high-throughput software delivery through organizational tooling and support
• Your focus will be ensuring our cloud and on-prem services scale, and that all engineering teams in the business feel the benefits of shared knowledge, tooling, and infrastructure
• Lead a team of Software Engineers, HPC engineers, Data Engineers, and Network Engineers building engineering infrastructure to support the development of our quantum cloud services and commercial quantum computers
• Maintain monitoring and alerting systems deployed on kubernetes (both self-managed on-prem and in the cloud) and on Linux workstations
• Effectively manage multiple projects, priorities, deadlines, deliverables, and product roadmaps
• Collaborate and communicate with security engineers, software engineers, data engineers, physicists, external vendors, application engineers, and other software engineering managers
• Manage costs across our on-prem and cloud-based services
• Help define key performance metrics for the team and greater software discipline
• Help us expand to multiple locations across the globe