Director, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

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IonQ

Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

On-site

Posted April 24, 2026

Job Description

About IonQ:

IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance.

Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before.

Location: This role is based in Switzerland.
Travel: Up to 20%
Job ID: 1457

The Role:

We are looking for a Director of SRE. As a Director of SRE, you'll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world's best quantum computers to solve the world's most complex problems.

In this role, you will build and lead SRE/DevOps organizations operating multi-tenant SaaS at scale on AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will be responsible for production ownership of availability, latency, incident response, and capacity management while implementing an SRE operating model using SLOs/SLIs and error budgets. Your leadership will bridge the gap between cloud infrastructure architecture and AI-ready operations to ensure a secure-by-default platform for our product teams.

Responsibilities:

Build and lead SRE/DevOps organizations operating multi-tenant SaaS at scale on AWS/Azure/GCP, including production ownership for availability, latency, incident response, DR, and capacity management.
Architect cloud infrastructure focusing on networking (VPC/VNet, routing, private connectivity), compute, containers/orchestration, and data platforms.
Implement SRE operating models using SLOs/SLIs and error budgets to balance reliability and delivery velocity.

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