Base Salary
$163k - $214k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and ship production backend services in Go and/or Rust.
- Build high-throughput telemetry ingestion pipelines using gNMI, NETCONF, and SNMP for large device fleets.
- Develop RESTful and gRPC APIs for internal consumers and external integrations.
- Implement and optimize time-series storage using InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, or an equivalent system.
- Build Kafka or Kinesis event-streaming pipelines with at-least-once or exactly-once processing semantics.
- Design data partitioning and archival strategies supporting ingest volume, latency, and durability targets.
- Own service reliability through on-call participation, incident response, post-mortems, and systemic improvements.
- Instrument services with structured logging, distributed tracing, and metrics using OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.
- Deploy containerized services on Kubernetes and maintain Terraform infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Contribute to multi-cloud deployment patterns meeting availability and data residency requirements.
- Translate architecture decisions into tested, production-grade implementations with the Principal Architect.
- Lead code reviews and mentor junior engineers through pairing and technical guidance.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of backend software engineering experience shipping production services at scale.
- Hands-on production proficiency in Go and/or Rust.
- Experience with distributed data systems, event streaming, time-series databases, and high-throughput ingestion pipelines.
- Strong understanding of consistency models, failure modes, backpressure, idempotency, and processing semantics.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and at least one of AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Familiarity with structured logging, Prometheus or Grafana, and OpenTelemetry or equivalent observability tools.
- Ability to write SQL and work with relational and time-series data models, schema design, and query optimization.
- Experience with code review, CI/CD, testing practices, on-call, and operational ownership.
- Preferred: experience with gNMI, NETCONF, SNMP, network equipment vendors, or network management platforms.
- Preferred: graph databases or graph data models, including Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, or custom adjacency representations.
- Preferred: YANG data modeling or device configuration schemas.
- Preferred: multi-tenant SaaS backend services, open-source infrastructure or networking contributions, technical writing on distributed systems, or work in regulated and security-conscious environments such as FedRAMP or NIST contexts.
Benefits
- Onsite role in Santa Clara, California.
- Up to 15% domestic or international travel.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Matching 401(k).
- Unlimited PTO and paid holidays.
- Parental and adoption leave.
- Legal insurance.
- Home technology stipend.
Tech Stack
About IonQ
IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and foundry - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the forthcoming IonQ Tempo, will be the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, AstraZeneca, and NVIDIA achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance. Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Toronto, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Learn more at IonQ.com.