Senior Infrastucture Engineer

IonQ•College Park, MD

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance. Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. We are looking for a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer. In this role, you will be building and operating quantum computers, which requires lots of classical computers — from high-performance computing clusters to VMs and containerized services, we rely on on-prem and cloud-based computers every day. We also build out all of the avenues that code gets from laptops and workspaces onto those classical computers. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll help build and maintain this critical infrastructure.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT or equivalent practical experience -- untraditional backgrounds are welcome and encouraged!
6+ years experience in technical infrastructure and software development
3+ years of experience in Linux system administration
3+ years experience in Kubernetes
Expert-level knowledge with a programming language of your choice
Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice To Haves

5+ years experience with Kubernetes or other containerization technologies
5+ years of software engineering experience
3+ years experience with Terraform
3+ years experience with VM-based virtualization
Prior experience running bare-metal Kubernetes clusters
Prior experience provisioning physical servers and network equipment
Prior experience scaling and securing distributed applications

Responsibilities

Help build out, automate, and maintain our on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure
Contribute to expanding our Observability platform (built on Grafana stack)
Help develop and implement our digital security capabilities for both our cloud infrastructure and on-prem facilities
Provision infrastructure in the cloud and on-prem as needed
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, enabling developer acceleration
Monitor systems to analyze and improve performance, security, and reliability
Operationalize our global fleet and development services
Collaborate closely with software and hardware engineers to continuously improve how we do things