Full Job Description
Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Software Developer, you will contribute to the platform and the infrastructure for our software and hardware products. You will work on a team to support the hardware architecture research and development at Xanadu. The Tools Team's primary goal is to help accelerate the Hardware Team's timelines to build the first commercially viable quantum computer. As a result, you will completely reshape the nature of computation as we know it. You will:
• Design, build, deploy, and maintain tooling, data management, and communication software products, including their supporting infrastructure, that enable various parts of our hardware development and operation processes.
• Support Quantum scientists to design our next generation hardware architecture
• Design APIs for consumption by internal and external services.
• Ensure high-quality production code by maintaining automated test coverage and a dynamic code review process.
• Perform DevOps tasks, such as maintaining our CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions.
At Xanadu, we primarily work with Python, Rust, Postgres, Docker, CI pipelines, and multiple cloud platforms. Proficiency in at least a subset of these technologies is essential.
Basic qualifications and experience:
• BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or a related field.
• 4+ years of software development experience.
• Strong knowledge of modern development languages like Python, Rust, or Go. Some familiarity with Rust is required.
• Experience with any major cloud providers: AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Product-minded approach to software development.
• In-depth knowledge of different software development methods such as Test Driven Development, Unit Testing, Agile, etc
• Self-driven to deliver high-quality solutions to your stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred qualifications and experience:
• Experience with AWS(Document DB, lambda, API gateway, ECS).
• Experience with Rust.
• Experience with ETL pipelines.
• Experience with multiple data storage technologies.
• Experience with front-end web development, extra points for WebGL experience.
• DevOps experience
This is for a new position. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and internal benchmarks. The base salary range is 110,000 - 140,000 CAD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.