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# Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** eleQtron GmbH
- **Location:** Siegen, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Firmware, Python (Programming Language), Automation of Marketing, Quantum Computing, Reliability Engineering, Cyber-physical Systems, TCP/IP, Information Technology
- **Published:** June 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://eleqtron.com/en/jobs/senior-site-reliability-engineer-quantum-computing-f-m-d-2/

## About the Role

* Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
 * 5+ years of professional experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Systems Engineering
 * Proven track record of operating and stabilizing complex, mission-critical systems
 * Strong experience with containerized and orchestrated environments
 * Hands-on experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability systems
 * Experience leading incident response and driving post-mortem
 * Strong technical documentation and architectural reasoning skills
 * Creative mindset and enjoyment working in a multicultural and interdisciplinary team
 * Ability to make sound engineering trade-offs under uncertainty
 * Fluent in written and spoken English

We value:

 * Experience in hardware-adjacent, lab, or cyber-physical systems
 * Background in scientific, research, or experimental environments
 * Strong Python skills for automation and tooling
 * Experience with long-running, stateful workloads
 * Familiarity with firmware, control systems, or real-time constraints
 * Experience with programmatic device control (e.g. SCPI, serial, USB, TCP/IP)
 * Prior exposure to quantum computing or other deep-tech domains

## Description

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Quantum Computing (f/m/d), you will take end-to-end responsibility for the reliability, stability, and operability of our software that operates our quantum computers. You will act as a technical authority for system reliability, shaping how our quantum computers are operated, monitored, and evolved in production-like lab environments. This is an on-site position in Siegen or Hamburg, working closely with software engineers, firmware developers, physicists, and hardware engineers in an interdisciplinary environment.

 * Own the reliability strategy for the quantum control and quantum program execution stack
 * Define and continuously refine SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and operational guardrails
 * Design and evolve the observability architecture across software, infrastructure, and hardware-adjacent layers
 * Lead incident response, post-mortems, and root cause analyses for critical system failures
 * Proactively identify systemic risks and drive mitigation strategies
 * Drive automation initiatives to reduce operational toil and improve system stability
 * Establish and maintain operational standards, runbooks, and documentation
 * Shape CI/CD and release processes with a strong focus on reliability and safe deployments
 * Act as a trusted partner for development teams when designing production-ready systems
 * Mentor engineers and raise reliability awareness across the organization


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