Senior Backend Engineer, Internal Software - Remote

Overview

Rigetti builds quantum computers to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges. Our systems combine superconducting qubit technologies with integrated classical infrastructure, enabling cutting-edge research and real-world applications.

In Short

• Maintain and lead improvements to data-intensive services and applications written predominantly in Python
• Measure and optimize performance of user-facing workflows across our suite of applications
• Ensuring integrity of changing data via schema migrations, testing, and other mechanisms
• Improve data platform observability for all stakeholders
• Manage communications to users about service reliability, active priorities, and development roadmap

Requirements

• Advanced working knowledge of Python and its software development lifecycle
• Working knowledge of SQL and RDBMSs
• Experience with system architecture or domain modeling
• Appetite for learning about user workflows and evaluating new approaches to building software

Benefits

• Experience or familiarity with: PostgreSQL, Python REST or RPC frameworks, Kafka or streaming technologies, AWS services (such as S3, RDS, EKS, and MSK), Palantir Foundry or other data warehouses
• Ability to collaboratively improve the team’s developer experience
• Passion for working with data and related systems