Principal Software Engineer at q-ctrl


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q-ctrl is Hiring

Job Info:
  • Company q-ctrl
  • Position Principal Software Engineer
  • Location Los Angeles
  • Source Empllo
  • Published March 01, 2026
  • Category Development
  • Type Full-Time
  • Salary $220k - $320k


Job Description

📋 Description

  • Drive architectural direction across products (backend/platform).
  • Influence technical strategy and OKRs across teams and leadership.
  • Drive engineering excellence with cross-domain patterns and abstractions.
  • Oversee large cross-team technical solutions with stakeholders.
  • Mentor engineers on system design; dotted-line leader with Engineering Manager.
  • Articulate trade-offs in complex designs to executives.

🎯 Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering as an IC focusing on product architecture.
  • Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.
  • A keen desire to rapidly learn and upskill in quantum computing technologies.
  • Proven track record leading cross-disciplinary architectural transformations in cloud-native and microservices.
  • Expertise in designing and implementing high-performance data storage, APIs, workflow orchestration, event-driven, distributed systems.
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Rust, and Go.

🎁 Benefits

  • Flexible/hybrid work arrangement.
  • Equity potential.
  • Competitive benefits.
  • Opportunity to work on quantum computing technologies.

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