Senior Manager, Software Engineering
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Senior Software Engineering Manager leading a team at IonQ, developing software for quantum systems. Collaborating with engineers and product managers to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities:
- Foster your team’s culture and build a high-trust team by promoting transparency, accountability, ownership, and psychological safety
- Hire, develop, and retain talent
- Demonstrate strong leadership and mentorship skills to foster a high-performing, innovative team environment that supports growth and retention
- Provide technical guidance to your team of software engineers and SREs to help build robust, well-engineered, and scalable software solutions
- Drive functional and technical delivery of key team and org-wide programs/initiatives
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional and senior management to influence and align on department-level goals and objectives
- Develop, implement, and iterate on processes, frameworks, and practices to achieve goals with well-defined success criteria
- Create widely circulated plans that drive consistency, clarity, and best practices, and build alignment across teams
- Reduce ambiguity by establishing a clear guiding strategy and goals that align with business priorities
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Physics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 13+ years of professional experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- 6+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerization; strong understanding of container orchestration, microservices architecture, and cloud-native principles
- Experience with data engineering and data architecture
- Strong expertise in virtual machines, Linux/UNIX systems, kernels, and networking
- Demonstrable experience with Site Reliability Engineering practices such as SLOs, observability practices, Learning From Incidents/root cause analysis culture, and automation to eliminate toil
- Knowledge of team management best practices and demonstrated experience building and scaling effective teams that drive a high-performance, high-trust culture in a distributed work environment
- Sound project management, strong analytical skills, and the ability to establish meaningful metrics that help drive a high return on investment
- Customer focused mindset and the ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with internal and external partners.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- Matching 401K
- Unlimited PTO and paid holidays
- Parental/adoption leave
- Legal insurance
- Home technology stipend



















