Principal Software Engineer

Join Q-CTRL as a Principal Software Engineer, where you will lead the architectural evolution of our product portfolio, enabling faster delivery, greater scalability, and enhanced autonomy for the Product team. You will oversee efforts across multiple teams and departments, drive technical excellence, influence technical strategy, and mentor engineers at all levels. This role offers flexible working hours, team activities, paid parental leave support, a personal development and training budget, a wellness budget, participation in community and STEM initiatives, an employee assistance program, equity, health insurance, and a 401(k) plan.

• Lead the architectural evolution of Q-CTRL’s product portfolio, enabling faster delivery, greater scalability, and enhanced Product team autonomy.
• Drive technical excellence across teams, guiding the development of a modular, high-performance architecture that supports seamless integrations.
• Influence technical strategy and OKRs, aligning stakeholders across multiple teams and seniority levels, with a horizon beyond 12 months.
• Strong programming skills in languages like Python, Rust, and Go
• Exceptional technical documentation and communication skills (architecture diagrams, design documents, technical decisions)
• Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools
• Expertise in designing and implementing high-performance data storage, APIs, workflow orchestration, event-driven, and distributed systems
• High performance computing and/or machine learning experience a bonus
• 10+ years of software engineering experience as a passionate individual contributor with a focus on software product architecture
• A physics background is not required however, a keen desire to rapidly learn and upskill in quantum computing technologies is critical
• Proven track record of leading cross-disciplinary architectural transformations, particularly in cloud-native and microservices environments