Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

About us

We hold the key to making quantum technology useful and operate at the highest levels of the emerging quantum sector. Our products are already revolutionizing the way quantum technology is used; From educating the workforce on how quantum computing works with Black Opal, to the industry-first native integration of our performance-management software with IBM Quantum services in November 2023, we are building the global quantum sector and defining the quantum infrastructure software segment. But our work isn’t limited to quantum computing; we go everywhere that quantum goes. In July 2023 our work with Australian Defence delivering software-ruggedized quantum sensing for navigation without GPS was featured in the New York Times. 

We base these world-leading commercial outcomes on a foundation of transformational research. We operate the industry’s largest team of experts in quantum control, and push the limits of human capability through our software, hardware, and technical publications in the world’s most prestigious scientific journals.

As a high-growth global quantum startup we’ve raised US $74M since 2017 from investors such as Airbus Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Main Sequence Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Sierra Ventures, SquarePeg Capital, and others; this includes the world’s largest Series B for any quantum software company, announced in early 2023. Adding to the completion of our new global HQ in Sydney (Australia’s first fully dedicated, commercial quantum technology site), Los Angeles, and Berlin offices, we’ve also recently announced our expansion into the UK to continue to impact the development of quantum technology globally.

We’re led by our values: to be real, to be trusted, to be just, and to be revered. We’ve brought together an inspiring team of world-leading physicists, engineers, product and design specialists (to name a few!) to help us shape the future of quantum technology. And we’re looking for new team members who want to help us change the world.

About the role

The Q-CTRL Infrastructure team is the backbone of the Q-CTRL Platform and all of the products that run on it. The mission of our team is to ensure that all of Q-CTRL’s infrastructure remains available, performant, reliable, scalable, and secure so that Q-CTRL can continue to deliver its revolutionary quantum technology.

As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at Q-CTRL, you will be playing a critical role in our team building the Q-CTRL Platform, a Kubernetes-based platform containing a variety of different workloads, including quantum modeling and GPU-accelerated workloads. You will help ensure that our end-to-end processes - development, testing, deployment, and maintenance - are as optimized and as code-driven as possible.

You will be joining an established team offering you support, coaching, and mentorship. You will work closely with all teams at Q-CTRL to advocate for a culture and practice of quality and continuous improvement and leading by example.

What you'll be doing:

• Becoming intimately familiar with our software stack, including but not limited to: Providing insight from your past knowledge and integrating that into our overall platform architecture, making changes to application code when needed, and ensuring we use the best technologies possible to achieve our platform goals.
• Ensuring that Q-CTRL stays current with industry best practices for operating in the cloud and proactively apply them, be a passionate advocate of DevOps culture, and be an active contributor towards innovating on and improving on our software engineering practices.
• Developing toolchain support: CI/CD pipelines, ephemeral test environments, vulnerability scanning, and automated infrastructure-as-code deployment tooling.
• Helping ensure our applications are scalable, highly available and cloud-agnostic. We target multiple public clouds, we also may provision private infrastructure for select clients.
• Being consistently learning, as staying on top of your game is part of your job.

Ideally you'll have:

• 5+ years of industry experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or equivalent.
• Worked with Kubernetes in a production environment before and are intimately familiar with all the things needed to create a Kubernetes cluster in a production scenario.
• Expert knowledge about public clouds such as AWS or GCP to know how to configure them to current best practices as infrastructure-as-code and how that applies to a Kubernetes environment.
• Worked with a variety of Linux distributions and can troubleshoot common problems.
• Proficiency in software development and programming and can quickly understand what an application is doing by looking at its codebase, sometimes with minimal information at hand. We primarily work with applications that use Go and Python.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A keen eye that identifies areas for improvement and takes initiative in implementing new technologies and solutions while building things the right way.

It would be fantastic if you have these skills/experience but not essential:

• Relevant Kubernetes certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or CKS.
• Relevant public cloud certifications such as AWS SAA/SAP or GCP ACE/PCA.
• Familiarity with the CNCF and its various projects.
• Experience using GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux CD.

Why Q-CTRL?

Flexibility: We embrace workplace flexibility so you worry more about your global impact vs a rigid work schedule.

Attractive salary: You’ll get to live the start-up life without start-up wages.

Equity: We want people to have a sense of ownership in what they do and offer the potential for equity share and annual bonuses.

Resources: We are well funded by the world’s best technology investors, letting us chase our ambitions with minimal constraints.

Parental support: We offer paid parental leave to support you and your loved ones!

Diversity: We’re an equal employment opportunity employer. We value diversity, inclusion and providing equal opportunities to all, actively supporting initiatives like the ‘Global Women in Quantum’ program among others. 

Unique culture: You’ll be surrounded by some of the world’s leading physicists, engineers, product, marketing and design people (to name a few!) with a strong desire to learn and transfer knowledge.

Meaningful values: You’ll work with an incredibly supportive team who work consistently to deliver our core values to be real, be trusted, be just and to be revered. 

Personal development: We provide you with a personal development and wellness budget. 

Impactful work: Last but not least! You’ll have the opportunity to work in the world’s leading field of technology and truly make an impact that matters! 

Q-CTRL is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that values the strength diversity brings to the workplace. We are committed to being inclusive in the way we hire. We strongly encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements mentioned in the job posting. 

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