CareerPlan

Staff Software Engineer, System Orchestration

Oxford, England, UKFull-time2026-10-05 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Build and operate the control plane software that arbitrates access, schedules programs, and maintains state for a fleet of trapped-ion quantum computers.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (System Orchestration)

Builds

The control plane software running on every quantum computer in the fleet

Domain

Quantum computing / Systems engineering

Required skills

Rust, stateful networked services, data durability, scheduling and workflow orchestration, distributed tracing, crash recovery

Preferred skills

Kubernetes, declarative deployment, formal specification, model checking, scientific computing

Technologies

Rust, PostgreSQL, gRPC, REST, Temporal, Hatchet, Airflow, Slurm

Responsibilities

Design durable recovery contracts for the control plane, diagnose live system failures, define service boundaries, build test infrastructure, evolve deployment strategies, conduct code reviews

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC