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# Senior Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** ALICE SERVICE
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Architectural Patterns, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Information Engineering, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), NoSQL, Performance Tuning, Quantum Computing, Service Design, SQL Databases, Backend, Containerization, Kubernetes, Storage Technologies, Dask, Slurm, Api Design, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/companies/alice-bob/jobs/senior-staff-software-engineer_paris

## About the Role

* 12+ years experience designing large-scale backend/platform architectures.
 * Superior engineering proficiency in Python, async frameworks, service design, data orchestration, and performance optimization.
 * Demonstrated experience architecting complex infrastructure and data-heavy distributed systems.
 * Ability to define clean abstractions and synchronization mechanisms for hardware/software interaction loops.
 * Deep expertise with storage technologies across SQL, NoSQL, timeseries, object storage, and distributed filesystems.
 * Strong product mindset: ability to think about end-to-end delivery, user experience, reliability, and long-term lifecycle.
 * Ability to collaborate and challenge ideas with physicists, academic-level experts, and deeply technical researchers.
 * Strong technical leadership: able to influence direction, align teams, and support cross-domain decision-making.
 * Experience with containerization, reproducibility, and hybrid cluster deployments (Kubernetes, HPC).
 * Hands-on experience with automation systems (schedulers, workflow engines, configuration graphs, data pipelines).
 * Knowledge of distributed scheduling (SLURM, Kubernetes batch, Ray, Dask, etc.) and HPC environment specifics.
 * Experience delivering a hardware-backed product (accelerators, HPC nodes, scientific instruments) to external users.
 * Knowledge of Rust, C++, or Go for performance-critical or system-level components.

## Description

You will be responsible for defining the service, and platform architecture that enables agility, evolution, and scale of our quantum computing stack. Your mandate is to create a cohesive, maintainable, and future-proof platform that supports experiment workflows, automation, logical systems, and eventually the delivery of a QPU-as-a-product for HPC or cloud users., * Architect the services, APIs, and internal frameworks powering experiment workflows, calibration systems, automation loops, and configuration management.

 * Choose and integrate appropriate storage technologies (SQL, NoSQL, object stores, columnar formats) to support scaling needs and diverse access patterns.
 * Define architectural patterns that maximize agility, modularity, and maintainability across the platform.
 * Collaborate closely with physicists and researchers to ensure models and interfaces reflect real experimental needs and enable fast iteration.
 * Partner with data engineering to build reliable ingestion paths, schema governance, data lifecycle strategies, and cross-team storage standards.
 * Shape the end-to-end architecture required to deliver the QPU as a cohesive product: API design, user orchestration, deployment strategy, and integration with HPC/cloud ecosystems.
 * Drive long-term architectural strategy, technical roadmap, and cross-organizational alignment.
 * Mentor teams, challenge assumptions, and lead architecture reviews across the platform department.