Senior Infrastructure Developer

1QBit | Full-time, Permanent | Fully Remote within Canada

Your Role

1QBit is focused on TopQAD™, a platform for designing quantum computing architectures. We’re looking for a senior infrastructure developer to tackle an exciting infrastructure challenge: making our TopQAD stack portable across Azure and private clouds.

Beyond that project, you’ll help shape how software moves from the developers’ hands into production. You’ll maintain and improve our CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code, keep our environments secure, monitored, and cost-efficient, and advise the team on decisions like scaling and resource sizing. You’ll also investigate recurring infrastructure and deployment issues, improve operational reliability, and help developers deliver software with greater confidence

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a meaningful architectural challenge, make important technical decisions, and help shape the platform and processes that will support our product as it evolves.

What You’ll Do

  • Design for portability: Adapt our existing Kubernetes-based platform to run in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and on self-managed Kubernetes clusters, using a consistent, maintainable architecture.
  • Solve complex infrastructure challenges: Design solutions for networking, storage, authentication, and security that work wherever TopQAD needs to run.
  • Automate and improve: Build infrastructure as code and CI/CD workflows that make deployments repeatable, reliable, and easier to maintain.
  • Improve operational reliability: Troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues, strengthen monitoring and recovery procedures, and implement improvements that reduce recurring problems and manual intervention.
  • Own the technical decisions: Lead infrastructure improvements from problem definition through design, implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation; evaluate tools and architectural trade-offs, determine resource and capacity requirements, and build solutions that balance performance, security, and maintainability.
  • Enable the team: Test deployments end to end, document installation and recovery procedures, and help developers understand and improve the platform.

    What You’ll Bring

    • 5+ years of relevant experience in DevOps, platform development, or infrastructure, with substantial infrastructure ownership including responsibility for technical design decisions.
    • Kubernetes experience, including Helm and self-managed clusters
    • Strong track record with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform or OpenTofu) and automated deployment pipelines.
    • Solid understanding of networking, identity and access management, certificates, and storage.
    • A practical, problem-solving mindset and the ability to explain technical decisions and their trade-offs.
    • Proficiency using AI tools such as GitHub, Copilot and Claude to accelerate problem-solving, explore approaches, and improve engineering workflows, with the judgment to evaluate and verify their outputs.
    • A strong passion for sharing your expertise and developing the skills of others.

      Additional Preferred Skills

      • Experience with Azure/AKS, backup and disaster recovery, observability, and secrets management.

      Why join our team

      • Fully remote: Work from anywhere in Canada. Optionally hybrid in Vancouver, Waterloo and Sherbrooke.
      • Meaningful technical ownership: Shape the architecture and deployment strategy of a flagship product.
      • Interesting problems: Work at the intersection of advanced software engineering and quantum computing.
      • Modern engineering practices: Join a team that values thoughtful design, automation, and effective use of AI-assisted tools.

      Enjoy solving hard problems and building infrastructure that just works? We’d like to hear from you.

      About 1QBit

      1QBit is a global leader in quantum computing. For over a decade, we have built the trust of Fortune 500 companies by addressing computationally intensive problems across a variety of fields, including advanced materials, the life sciences, energy, and finance. We support and accelerate the development of quantum computing through our expertise in quantum control, quantum characterization, verification and validation (QCVV), fault tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) and quantum error correction (QEC), quantum resource estimation (QRE), machine learning, optimal control, optimization, and software engineering. Building on this broad expertise, we are commercializing a novel automated software pipeline that brings a full-stack perspective to FTQC development: 1QBit’s Topological Quantum Architecture Design (TopQAD).

       

      Apply now

      To submit your application, you will need to log into a Google account and fill the Google form (preferred). Alternatively you can also apply by sending your resume, contact information, education and work status to hr@1qbit.com.