Hybrid Senior Staff Software Engineer

Posted 4 weeks ago

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About the role

  • Senior Software Engineer architecting software solutions for quantum computing startup. Collaborating with researchers and engineers to develop a comprehensive quantum computing platform.

Responsibilities

  • Architect the **services, APIs, and internal frameworks** powering experiment workflows, calibration systems, automation loops, and configuration management.
  • Choose and integrate appropriate storage technologies (SQL, NoSQL, object stores, columnar formats) to support scaling needs and diverse access patterns.
  • Define architectural patterns that maximize **agility, modularity, and maintainability** across the platform.
  • Collaborate closely with physicists and researchers to ensure models and interfaces reflect real experimental needs and enable fast iteration.
  • Partner with data engineering to build reliable ingestion paths, schema governance, data lifecycle strategies, and cross-team storage standards.
  • Shape the end-to-end architecture required to deliver the QPU as a **cohesive product**: API design, user orchestration, deployment strategy, and integration with HPC/cloud ecosystems.
  • Drive long-term architectural strategy, technical roadmap, and cross-organizational alignment.
  • Mentor teams, challenge assumptions, and lead architecture reviews across the platform department.

Requirements

  • 12+ years designing large-scale backend/platform architectures.
  • Superior engineering proficiency in **Python**, async frameworks, service design, data orchestration, and performance optimization.
  • Demonstrated experience architecting complex **infrastructure and data-heavy distributed systems**.
  • Ability to define clean abstractions and synchronization mechanisms for **hardware/software interaction loops**.
  • Deep expertise with **storage technologies across SQL, NoSQL, timeseries, object storage, and distributed filesystems**.
  • Strong product mindset: ability to think about **end-to-end delivery**, user experience, reliability, and long-term lifecycle.
  • Ability to collaborate and challenge ideas with physicists, academic-level experts, and deeply technical researchers.
  • Strong technical leadership: able to influence direction, align teams, and support cross-domain decision-making.

Benefits

  • 25-day vacation policy (as per French law) + RTT
  • Half of transportation cost coverage (as per French law), or yearly allowance for bike enthusiasts
  • Competitive health benefits with Helium/AXA
  • Meal vouchers with Swile, as well as access to a fully equipped kitchen
  • Parental benefits with crèche support
  • Flexible remote policy, up to 40 % a month
  • Language courses covered by the company
  • Mental health support with moka.care
  • Subsidized membership with Urban Sports Club

Job title

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

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