Principal Platform Engineer

Join Atom Computing as a Principal Platform Engineer, where you will design and maintain the infrastructure that powers our quantum computing and research workflows. You will work closely with software engineers, control systems engineers, and physicists to deliver compute infrastructure that meets workload requirements. You will also establish and enforce security, access control, and compliance standards, participate in on-call rotation, and evaluate and integrate new infrastructure tooling. This position requires solid expertise in infrastructure and platform engineering, strong systems thinking, and the ability to navigate complex design problems.

• Design, build, and maintain classical compute infrastructure supporting quantum control systems.
• Own infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, and system observability across on-prem lab environments and cloud platforms.
• Establish and enforce security, access control, and compliance standards (e.g., NIST 800-53, SOC2) across systems.

• This position requires solid expertise in infrastructure and platform engineering and strong systems thinking, along with the ability to navigate complex design problems
• BS or advanced degree in Computer Science
• 7+ years of post-degree experience as an infrastructure, platform, or systems engineer
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals, Linux systems administration, and CI/CD pipeline design
• Currently working with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes)
• Experience managing hybrid environments spanning on-prem hardware (Proxmox, K8S) and cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Have gone through a complete infrastructure build-out or major platform migration
• Expertise in monitoring, logging, and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent)
• Currently working with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or similar)