Staff Software Engineer, System Orchestration (Quantum Computing)

Location: Oxford, United Kingdom; hybrid office commitment

Company

hirify.global develops integrated quantum computing, networking, sensing, and security solutions, including trapped-ion quantum computers and quantum cloud services.

What you will do

• Build and operate the control-plane services that schedule, prioritize, and coordinate quantum programs, calibrations, and customer workloads.
• Design durability and recovery contracts, persistence workflows, crash recovery, and live-data migrations for stateful services.
• Improve machine-readiness assessment, failure diagnosis, correctness, observability, and fleet-wide reliability.
• Define service boundaries, migrate code across services, and develop tooling and test infrastructure.
• Evolve deployment and operations practices as the quantum-computing fleet grows.
• Collaborate with runtime, systems, operations, and scientific teams while contributing hands-on code and reviews.

Requirements

• Deep systems engineering experience and a track record operating production services where data loss is unacceptable.
• Strong Rust experience, or deep proficiency in another systems language with willingness to work in Rust and asynchronous code.
• Experience building and operating stateful networked services exposed through gRPC or REST.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL, persistence design, crash recovery, data migrations, error handling, observability, and failure modes.
• Experience with scheduling or workflow systems such as Temporal, Hatchet, Airflow, Slurm, or PostgreSQL-backed queues.
• Excellent written and cross-disciplinary communication skills, including the ability to document and compare design options.

Nice to have

• Experience replacing load-bearing systems while they remain in service.
• Production containerized services, Kubernetes, and declarative deployment.
• Distributed tracing, formal specification, or model checking.
• Closed-loop systems, scientific computing, or research-facility experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on work with scientists, engineers, and operators developing quantum systems.
• Flexible hybrid working in Oxford.
• hirify.global stock options and an annual performance bonus.
• Generous annual leave, paid holidays, parental and adoption leave, and a home technology stipend.
• Private medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus matching 401(k) and legal insurance.
• Work environment focused on autonomy, productivity, respect, equity, and inclusion.