Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Quantum Computing Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud API Developer to maintain and expand cloud APIs and microservices that connect users with its photonic quantum hardware. The role focuses on orchestrating optimization jobs, managing user access, and building secure, reliable services across cloud and on-premise environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance RESTful APIs using Golang and Python to support a broad ecosystem
• Architect asynchronous, event-driven workflows using RabbitMQ (or similar message brokers) to decouple job scheduling, hardware execution, and result processing
• Optimize service-to-service communication to ensure low latency and high reliability across a distributed stack
• Monitor system health and implement distributed tracing to debug complex microservice interactions
• Implement industry-standard security best practices for API authentication and authorization (OAuth2, OIDC, mTLS)
• Work within existing deployment and testing patterns to add new services to CI/CD

Skills

• 4+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
• Expert proficiency in Golang and Python for production services
• Strong background in message queuing systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, or NATS) and event-driven architecture patterns
• Proven track record of implementing API security best practices, including OAuth2, JWT, and protection against OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities (Injection, Broken Auth)
• Experience designing scalable database schemas (SQL, NoSQL) and managing databases with indexing and TTL
• Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) and automated testing strategies
• Golang, Python, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Microservices, REST APIs, gRPC, OAuth2, Docker, PostgreSQL, Linux, Git, CI/CD, MongoDB, FastAPI

Benefits

• Remote work
• Hybrid work environment

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