Senior DevOps Engineer

Company Overview

IonQ, Inc. is a leading quantum computing company that delivers integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. The company’s IonQ Tempo quantum computers provide high‑performance, cloud‑managed SaaS products and on‑premises components for customers worldwide.

This role is based onsite at our Santa Clara, CA office. Up to 25% travel is expected.

Senior Staff Dev Ops Engineer – Quantum Platform Network Security Engineering Team. The team builds, secures, and operates scalable infrastructure for cloud‑managed SaaS products with on‑premises components deployed at customer sites.

• Set the direction for the software‑factory roadmap, architecture and tooling decisions, and align the organization to enable self‑service delivery.
• Embed security scanning and policy enforcement into every pipeline stage to make secure delivery the default.
• Operate the release train and release gate, including an expedited hotfix pipeline that remains fully gated.
• Automate dependency updates, generate SBOMs, and verify artifact provenance.
• Build and improve the internal developer platform to deliver self‑service capabilities for rapid, safe product shipping.
• Engineer infrastructure as code with reusable, tested modules and policy‑as‑code enforcement across cloud and hybrid deployments.
• Run vulnerability scanning, drive findings to closure within service‑level targets, and keep audit evidence current.
• Build and operate agentic workflows for pipeline triage and routine support, enforcing guardrails for autonomous actions.
• Mentor engineers, raise standards, and align Architecture, SRE, Cloud Operations, and Product Development behind the roadmap.

• 12+ years of production engineering experience.
• Hands‑on experience building and operating CI/CD pipeline platforms at production scale.
• Security embedded into pipelines as a practitioner – demonstrated configuration of scanning and resolution of vulnerabilities.
• Infrastructure‑as‑code authored and tested with production modules.
• Ownership of release, dependency, or vulnerability‑management outcomes with measurable results.
• Strong scripting and automation fluency, with a bias toward eliminating manual toil.

• Depth in supply‑chain security: signing, SBOMs, provenance, SLSA.
• Experience with internal developer platform or self‑service design, with measurable adoption.
• Ownership of release‑gate or release‑train processes, including expedited emergency‑change delivery.
• Agentic delivery automation (e.g., AWS Agent Core) and AI/LLM security practice.

Base salary range: $216,136 – $282,978. Total compensation includes base, bonus, equity, and benefit options.

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans; 401(k) matching; unlimited paid time off and holidays; parental/adoption leave; legal insurance; home‑technology stipend; and additional benefits as described on our career site.

At IonQ, we are committed to fair treatment and equal opportunity for all employees. We welcome diverse perspectives and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

We encourage you to apply.