Staff DevOps Engineer
Staff DevOps Engineer at IonQ, a quantum computing company, sets the technical direction for the 'software factory': the CI/CD platform, pipeline security, release engineering, supply-chain/SBOM controls, and infrastructure-as-code powering cloud SaaS products with on-premises deployments. A hands-on, automation-first role based in Santa Clara, CA (hybrid, up to 25% travel).
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Santa Clara, California, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years of production engineering experience with recent hands-on work
- Hands-on, recent experience building and operating CI/CD pipeline platforms at production scale
- Has personally configured pipeline security scanning and driven a real vulnerability to closure within a deadline
- Has authored and tested infrastructure-as-code, with production modules to show (not only consumed)
- Demonstrated ownership of release, dependency, or vulnerability-management outcomes with measurable results
- Scripting and automation fluency with a clear bias toward removing manual toil
- U.S. Person status (or export-control license availability) required due to export controls
- Willingness to travel up to 25%
Nice to have
- Supply-chain security depth (signing, SBOMs, provenance, SLSA)
- Internal developer platform or self-service design, measured by adoption
- Release-gate or release-train ownership, including expedited or emergency-change delivery under pressure
- Agentic delivery automation (AWS Agent Core or equivalent) and AI/LLM security practice
Full description
**About IonQ:
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.
Location: This role is based at our Santa Clara, CA office, with the option to work a few days a week remotely.
Travel: Up to 25%**
Job ID:** 1861
**The Role:
We are looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Quantum Platform Network Security Engineering Team. The Platform Engineering team builds, secures, and operates scalable infrastructure for cloud-managed SaaS products with on-premises components deployed at customer sites.
The DevOps discipline owns the "software factory" — the end-to-end system that takes code from commit to production securely, reliably, and fast, with security embedded into every stage.
As a Staff DevOps Engineer, you set the technical direction for the software factory. You own its roadmap, make the architecture and tooling decisions that shape how every product team ships, and raise the bar through standards, review, and mentorship. You remain deeply hands-on by writing pipeline code, building and testing infrastructure-as-code modules, configuring security scanning, managing dependencies, operating release infrastructure, and, where on-premises infrastructure is in scope, running physical and virtual systems. The work is automation-first with every repetitive task a candidate for a pipeline or an agentic workflow.
- CI/CD pipeline platform — the shared build, test, scan, sign, and deploy platform, with reusable templates and golden-path standards.
- Pipeline security and policy — scanning strategy, security gates, risk thresholds, and automated go/no-go decisioning.