Staff DevOps Engineer

The Role

We are looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Quantum Platform Network Security Engineering Team. The Platform Engineering team builds, secures, and operates scalable infrastructure for cloud-managed SaaS products with on-premises components deployed at customer sites.

The DevSecOps discipline owns the "software factory" — the end-to-end system that takes code from commit to production securely, reliably, and fast, with security embedded into every stage.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction — own the software-factory roadmap and the architecture and tooling decisions behind it, and bring the organization along with you, so that every service builds, tests, scans, signs, and deploys through self-service, with no manual gates beyond code review and release approval.
• Make security the fast path — embed scanning and policy enforcement into every pipeline stage so secure delivery is the default, not a bottleneck.
• Run release management — operate the release train (versioning, environment promotion) and the release gate, and the expedited hotfix pipeline fast but fully gated.
• Keep dependencies and the supply chain healthy — automate dependency updates, track freshness, generate SBOMs, and verify artifact provenance.
• Build and improve the internal developer platform — deliver self-service capabilities that let product teams ship quickly and safely.
• Engineer infrastructure as code — write and test production modules with the same rigor product teams apply to application code.
• Operate security and compliance — run vulnerability scanning, drive findings to closure within security-based service-level targets and keep audit evidence continuously current.
• Agentic delivery automation (AWS Agent Core or equivalent) and AI or LLM security practice.

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.

Pay

The approximate base salary range for this position is $187,944 - $246,068. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site.

Schedule

Location: This role is based onsite at our office in Santa Clara, CA.

Benefits

Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment.

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 dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued.

If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!

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