Software Infrastructure & Platform Engineer
| Company | PsiQuantum |
|---|---|
| Location | Palo Alto, CA, USA, Ontario, Canada |
| Salary | $120000 – $180000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years in DevOps/Platform Engineering with hands-on AWS expertise (EKS, IAM, VPC, S3) and multi-account networking (transit gateways, peering, security groups).
- Proven IaC Experience: Designed and deployed production infrastructure using Terraform and Pulumi/AWS CDK.
- CI/CD Ownership: Built and maintained GitLab CI/GitHub Actions pipelines with artifact management, rollback strategies, and parallelized jobs.
- Containerization & Microservices: Shipped Dockerized apps on ECS/EKS and serverless workloads (Lambda, API Gateway) with zero-downtime deployments.
- Agile/Scrum Fluency: Collaborated in sprint-based teams to prioritize infrastructure work alongside feature development.
- Multi-Environment Governance: Managed dev/staging/prod parity using IaC, feature flags, and environment-specific configurations.
Responsibilities
- Design and Maintain IaC Foundations: Write modular, reusable Terraform/Pulumi code to provision AWS services (EKS, RDS, VPC, etc.), ensuring multi-account networking and cross-environment parity.
- Automate CI/CD Pipelines: Oversee GitLab CI workflows (builds, tests, deployments) and integrate security checks (IAM, KMS) into every stage.
- Collaborate on System Reliability: Partner with QA teams to design testable infrastructure, debug deployment failures, and validate pre/post-deployment system health.
- Implement Observability: Deploy monitoring/logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana) to preempt issues, optimize performance, and ensure SLA compliance.
- Enforce Security Best Practices: Embed authentication/authorization controls (Okta, IAM) and compliance standards (e.g., public sector requirements) into infrastructure design.
- Document and Iterate: Create runbooks for incident response, disaster recovery, and infrastructure scaling to minimize downtime.
Preferred Qualifications
- Database Optimization: Tuned RDS/DynamoDB/Redis clusters for scalability and low-latency access.
- Security & Compliance: Implemented Auth0/Okta, KMS encryption, or FedRAMP/IRAP-aligned systems for public sector clients.
- HPC/Advanced Compute: Deployed domain-specific containerization (Apptainer/Singularity) or managed GPU/ML clusters.
- AWS Certifications: Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security Specialty certifications.
- Scripting Proficiency: Python/Bash for automation, tooling, or glue code.
- Quantum Curiosity: Exposure to quantum SDKs (Qiskit/Cirq) or hybrid classical-quantum workflows.