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IonQ
Full time
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USA
09/15/2026
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Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities

Own the software-factory roadmap, architecture, tooling decisions, reusable pipeline templates, and golden-path standards.
Build and operate shared pipelines for building, testing, scanning, signing, and deploying software.
Embed security scanning, policy enforcement, risk thresholds, and automated release decisions into pipeline stages.
Operate versioning, environment promotion, release gates, expedited hotfix pipelines, and release governance.
Automate dependency updates, track dependency health, generate SBOMs, and verify artifact signing and provenance.
Build and improve an internal developer platform with self-service provisioning, onboarding, documentation, and support capabilities.
Author and test production infrastructure-as-code modules and enforce policy-as-code across cloud and hybrid environments.
Operate vulnerability scanning, identity and access operations, secrets lifecycle management, and continuous compliance evidence.
Build agentic workflows for pipeline triage, dependency orchestration, and routine support with appropriate security guardrails.
Mentor engineers, establish standards, conduct reviews, and align Architecture, SRE, Cloud Operations, and Product Development around the roadmap.

Requirements

8+ years of production engineering experience with recent hands-on work.
Recent hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipeline platforms at production scale.
Practical experience configuring security scanning and driving a real vulnerability to closure within a deadline.
Experience authoring and testing infrastructure-as-code production modules rather than only consuming them.
Demonstrated ownership of release, dependency, or vulnerability-management outcomes with measurable results.
Fluency in scripting and automation with a focus on eliminating manual toil.
Preferred: supply-chain security experience with signing, SBOMs, provenance, and SLSA.
Preferred: internal developer platform or self-service design experience measured by adoption.
Preferred: release-gate or release-train ownership, including expedited or emergency-change delivery.
Preferred: agentic delivery automation using AWS Agent Core or an equivalent, plus AI or LLM security practice.

Benefits

Santa Clara, California office location with the option to work remotely a few days per week.
Up to 25% travel.
Medical, dental, and vision plans.
Matching 401(k).
Unlimited PTO and paid holidays.
Parental and adoption leave.
Legal insurance.
Home technology stipend.

Salary: $1 - $1/yr

IonQ

IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and foundry - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the forthcoming IonQ Tempo, will be the latest in a line of cutting-edge system...

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