[Hiring] Senior Backend Software Engineer @PsiQuantum
Mar 28, 2025 - PsiQuantum is hiring a remote Senior Backend Software Engineer. đź’¸ Salary: unspecified. đź“ŤLocation: USA, Canada.
Role Description
We are seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain automated services and workflows supporting critical, data-intensive applications in high-performance environments. In this hands-on role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams—combining software engineering rigor with scientific or computational insights—to create robust backend systems. You’ll ensure these platforms operate efficiently, scale seamlessly, and provide consistent performance for demanding workloads.
You’ll have the opportunity to:
- Develop and own essential backend services and APIs, facilitating smooth end-to-end workflows for scientific or computational processes.
- Implement scalable job orchestration, coordinating tasks across HPC clusters, GPU resources, or other distributed systems.
- Optimize system performance, leveraging monitoring and automation tools to identify bottlenecks and streamline critical workflows.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., Data Engineering, QA, Product) to drive a cohesive architecture aligned with compliance, scalability, and availability targets.
Responsibilities:
- Design and maintain backend architectures that integrate with various data pipelines, APIs, and HPC workflows.
- Implement workflow engines and scheduling frameworks (e.g., Airflow, Prefect) to automate and monitor multi-step processes at scale.
- Ensure reliability and high availability, troubleshooting complex issues across distributed systems, containers, and orchestration platforms.
- Collaborate with domain experts to incorporate specialized computational methods or libraries, adapting services to demanding scientific or technical workloads.
- Document and streamline processes, maintaining clear and reproducible code for cross-team collaboration and long-term sustainability.
- Contribute to continuous improvement by championing best practices for DevOps, performance tuning, and system observability.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience in writing and maintaining production software with a bachelor's degree or 5+ years of experience with a master's.
- Proven experience building production-grade backend services and APIs, ideally in a high-performance or data-intensive context.
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend programming language (e.g., Python, Go, C++), with a solid understanding of RESTful or microservices architectures.
- Hands-on background in containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), including deployment strategies and load balancing.
- Experience with job schedulers (e.g., Slurm, LSF, or PBS) or distributed computing frameworks on HPC clusters or cloud-based systems is highly valuable.
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools such as Prefect, Airflow, or similar.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to translate complex technical requirements into practical backend solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, plus experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, AWS CDK).
- Exposure to cloud data services (e.g., AWS Glue, Databricks, Snowflake) or event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Performance tuning expertise for GPU-accelerated or HPC-based workloads, including observability solutions (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus).
- Experience in an R&D environment, where research and engineering intersect to develop innovative solutions at scale.
Company Description
Quantum computing holds the promise of humanity’s mastery over the natural world, but only if we can build a real quantum computer. PsiQuantum is on a mission to build the first real, useful quantum computers, capable of delivering the world-changing applications that the technology has long promised.
By harnessing the laws of quantum physics, quantum computers can provide exponential performance increases over today’s most powerful supercomputers, offering the potential for extraordinary advances across a broad range of industries including climate, energy, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, finance, agriculture, transportation, materials design, and many more.
In 2024, PsiQuantum announced two government-funded projects to support the build-out of our first Quantum Data Centers and utility-scale quantum computers in Brisbane, Australia and Chicago, Illinois.
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