System Reliability Engineer, Quantinuum
Quantum Computing
Quantum computing company
Open for applications
Quantum computing company
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate quantum computing and use its power to positively transform the world.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
- Experience collecting logs, traces and metrics for distributed systems
- Experience using tools such as AWS CloudWatch to locate bugs and performance issues
- Experience improving declarative Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
- Experience working on cloud based systems where uptime and reliability are crucial
- Professional experience working with Python
Desirable
- Experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience working in a continuous deployment environment
- Experience with triaging and debugging issues in code
- Familiarity with the OpenTelemetry standard and SDKs
What the job involves
- Quantinuum is seeking to hire a System Reliability Engineer Engineer for our Cambridge-based cloud platform, Quantinuum Nexus. Our team aims to support the effort of quantum researchers at every stage of an experiment, making working on quantum computers as easy as sending an email
- The successful candidate will be an expert at working with managed Kubernetes instances such as Amazon EKS and the distributed systems that can be built on top of them. Managing the architecture, performance, security and cost of this instance will be at the core of what you do. Experience with tools like Helm, Karpenter and k9s will be essential to meeting the goals of this role
- The ideal candidate will have experience with collecting logs, traces and metrics via Opentelemetry and making those available through AWS products like x-ray and cloudwatch. These readings should then be used to ensure that Nexus meets our high standards for performance and reliability or, if it’s falling short, they can be used to direct the team on how best to improve things
- In the event of issues and outages you’ll be active in reporting, monitoring and diagnosing the cause of issues. You should have the programming experience required to read and understand code in production with the intention of matching it up with readings collected by monitoring tools.
- You will be working closely with the development team to make sure everyone has the information they need to identify and resolve the issue as soon as possible
Our take
The processing power of quantum computing (QC) promises to yield substantial advances across dozens of diverse industries, from the development of pharmaceuticals, to the chemical industry and financial services. Billions are being poured into the steady development of these computers, both into the hardware and the specialised software which can harness these devices.
Quantinuum was formed out of the merger of Cambridge Quantum and Honeywell, QC software and hardware firms respectively. These two highly respected companies had independently made quite a stir in the QC space and attracted a high degree of investment, and their merger has created the world's largest integrated QC company, able to build and operate quantum computers at both the hardware and software level.
The organisation has moved fast and has already developed software and hardware for the application of QC in chemistry, natural language processing, machine learning, algorithms, and cybersecurity. All of these are exceedingly lucrative and high-stakes areas of business, and it is leaders in precisely these sectors (Google, for example, and IBM) who are investing so heavily into the QC project.
Quantinuum's software is system agnostic, allowing the advances it makes to be used on other quantum computers as well as its own, opening up major business opportunities. So Quantinuum is working in conjunction with some of the sector’s major players, whilst also pursuing high-value customers and lucrative market opportunities. It’s remarkable work, and impressively funded to match. It will continue substantially impacting the progress of key industries going forward.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Dec 2020
$45m
LATE VC
Jul 2020
$14.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $82.2m
Company benefits
- Equity
- A positive approach to flexible working
- Health insurance
- Commuting allowance
- Enhanced holidays
- Incentive schemes
Company HQ
Countryside, Westminster, CO
Leadership
Rajeeb Hazra
(CEO & President)Was previously a Senior Vice President & General Manager at Micron Technology. Before that was Corporate Vice President & General Manager of Enterprise & Government for Intel.
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