Staff DevOps Engineer

Requirements:

• 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.
• Security embedded into pipelines as a practitioner — has personally configured scanning and driven a real vulnerability to closure within a deadline.
• Infrastructure-as-Code authored and tested, 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.
• Preferred Qualifications:
• 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 or LLM security practice.
• The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site.
• If this role has a commission structure, the compensation range below just reflects the base compensation range.
• Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment.
• At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.