Infrastructure Software Engineer Control Calibration AWS Center for Quantum Computing
Infrastructure Software Engineer Control Calibration AWS Center for Quantum Computing
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19-04-2025
Job Description
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) is a multidisciplinary team of scientists engineers and technicians on a mission to develop a faulttolerant quantum computer.
We are looking to hire an Infrastructure Software Engineer to join our growing software team. You will work closely with our experimental and theoretical physics teams to enable their work characterizing calibrating and operating novel quantum devices. The ideal candidate will be able to translate highlevel science requirements into software infrastructure implementations (e.g. CDK scripts web servers database schemas) that are performant scalable and secure. This requires someone who 1 has a strong desire to work within a team of scientists and engineers and 2 demonstrates ownership in initiating and driving projects to completion. As an Infrastructure Software Engineer this role has a particular emphasis on the scalability and performance of the database and cloud infrastructure that supports the experimental physics efforts at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employeeled affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledgesharing mentorship and other careeradvancing resources here to help you develop into a betterrounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value worklife harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
Export Control Requirement
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations candidates must be either a U.S. citizen or national U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder) or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum or be able to obtain a US export license. If you are unsure if you meet these requirements please apply and Amazon will review your application for eligibility.
Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities include some combination of the following:
Profile and optimize the performance of the database API and infrastructure to enable faster experiments and analysis routines.
Propose and implement horizontal scaling strategies to enable high multiregion availability of experimental data and scaling to larger quantum devices.
Leverage infrastructureascode to continuously deploy improvements to our data & automation platforms.
Lower the barrier to entry for software development by automating schema migrations and enabling seamless setup of dev environments.
Maintain Amazons high security bar without slowing down the pace of internal development.
Upgrade and maintain the cloud infrastructure that underpins the web services offered by our team.
Implement best practices for observability and monitoring to enable rapid debugging and high service uptime.
Empower others to actively contribute to the codebase through mentorship and documentation.
We are looking for candidates with strong engineering principles a bias for action superior problemsolving and excellent communication skills. Working effectively within a team environment is essential. As a software engineer embedded in a research organization you will have the opportunity to work on new ideas and stay abreast of the field of experimental quantum computation.
A day in the life
The majority of your time will be spent on projects that extend the functional capabilities or performance of our internal research software stack. This requires working backwards from the needs of our science staff in the context of our larger experimental roadmap. You will translate science and software requirements into design proposals balancing implementation complexity against timetodelivery. Once a design proposal has been reviewed and accepted youll drive implementation and coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure a smooth roll out. Because many highlevel experimental goals have crosscutting requirements youll often work closely with other engineers or scientists or on the team.
About the team
You will be joining the software team within the AWS Center of Quantum Computing. Our team is comprised of scientists and software engineers who are building scalable software that enables quantum computing technologies.
2 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
2 years of Python software development experience
Experience with fullstack web development (e.g. clientserver architectures databases)
Experience working with and optimizing SQL databases
Experience with using infrastructureascode to design and deploy cloud services
Experience with the full software development lifecycle (planning design implementation testing deployment and maintenance)
Experience working with scientists in a research environment
Experience with data modeling for scientific use cases
Experience with AWS tools and services (e.g. CDK)
Experience with Javascript and React
Experience with REST and GraphQL
Experience with common opensource software for data analysis and machine learning
Experience in experimental physics or quantum computing
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
We are looking to hire an Infrastructure Software Engineer to join our growing software team. You will work closely with our experimental and theoretical physics teams to enable their work characterizing calibrating and operating novel quantum devices. The ideal candidate will be able to translate highlevel science requirements into software infrastructure implementations (e.g. CDK scripts web servers database schemas) that are performant scalable and secure. This requires someone who 1 has a strong desire to work within a team of scientists and engineers and 2 demonstrates ownership in initiating and driving projects to completion. As an Infrastructure Software Engineer this role has a particular emphasis on the scalability and performance of the database and cloud infrastructure that supports the experimental physics efforts at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employeeled affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledgesharing mentorship and other careeradvancing resources here to help you develop into a betterrounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value worklife harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
Export Control Requirement
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations candidates must be either a U.S. citizen or national U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder) or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum or be able to obtain a US export license. If you are unsure if you meet these requirements please apply and Amazon will review your application for eligibility.
Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities include some combination of the following:
Profile and optimize the performance of the database API and infrastructure to enable faster experiments and analysis routines.
Propose and implement horizontal scaling strategies to enable high multiregion availability of experimental data and scaling to larger quantum devices.
Leverage infrastructureascode to continuously deploy improvements to our data & automation platforms.
Lower the barrier to entry for software development by automating schema migrations and enabling seamless setup of dev environments.
Maintain Amazons high security bar without slowing down the pace of internal development.
Upgrade and maintain the cloud infrastructure that underpins the web services offered by our team.
Implement best practices for observability and monitoring to enable rapid debugging and high service uptime.
Empower others to actively contribute to the codebase through mentorship and documentation.
We are looking for candidates with strong engineering principles a bias for action superior problemsolving and excellent communication skills. Working effectively within a team environment is essential. As a software engineer embedded in a research organization you will have the opportunity to work on new ideas and stay abreast of the field of experimental quantum computation.
A day in the life
The majority of your time will be spent on projects that extend the functional capabilities or performance of our internal research software stack. This requires working backwards from the needs of our science staff in the context of our larger experimental roadmap. You will translate science and software requirements into design proposals balancing implementation complexity against timetodelivery. Once a design proposal has been reviewed and accepted youll drive implementation and coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure a smooth roll out. Because many highlevel experimental goals have crosscutting requirements youll often work closely with other engineers or scientists or on the team.
About the team
You will be joining the software team within the AWS Center of Quantum Computing. Our team is comprised of scientists and software engineers who are building scalable software that enables quantum computing technologies.
2 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
2 years of Python software development experience
Experience with fullstack web development (e.g. clientserver architectures databases)
Experience working with and optimizing SQL databases
Experience with using infrastructureascode to design and deploy cloud services
Experience with the full software development lifecycle (planning design implementation testing deployment and maintenance)
Experience working with scientists in a research environment
Experience with data modeling for scientific use cases
Experience with AWS tools and services (e.g. CDK)
Experience with Javascript and React
Experience with REST and GraphQL
Experience with common opensource software for data analysis and machine learning
Experience in experimental physics or quantum computing
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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