System Reliability Engineer - Quantum Computing

Quantinuum

📍 Cambridge, England, United-Kingdom

Full-time Engineering Posted March 02, 2026

Job Description

System Reliability Engineer – Quantum Computing

Quantinuum is seeking a System Reliability Engineer to support our Cambridge-based cloud platform, Quantinuum Nexus, which helps quantum researchers at every stage of an experiment, making quantum computing as easy as sending an email.

As a System Reliability Engineer, you will be an expert at working with managed Kubernetes instances such as Amazon EKS, and the distributed systems that can be built on top of them. Managing the architecture, performance, security and cost of this instance will be at the core of your responsibilities. Experience with tools such as Helm, Karpenter and k9s will be essential to meeting the goals of this role.

You will collect logs, traces and metrics via OpenTelemetry and make them available through AWS products such as X‑ray and CloudWatch. These readings will be used to ensure Nexus meets our high standards for performance and reliability, and to direct the team on how to imp...