9 hours ago
Base Salary
$212k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the distributed backend architecture and multi-year technical roadmap, including platform availability, scalability, and cost targets.
- Lead architecture reviews and define design standards, reference architectures, decision records, and cross-team technical initiatives.
- Architect high-throughput ingestion, network telemetry, event streaming, time-series storage, and data APIs.
- Build production services, prototypes, and reference implementations while reviewing critical designs and code.
- Establish observability, multi-tenant isolation, access control, data governance, reliability, and incident-response practices.
- Set the multi-cloud Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code architecture across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Mentor Senior, Staff, and Senior Staff engineers and act as a cross-organizational technical authority.
Requirements
- 15+ years of software engineering experience building and operating distributed backend systems and platforms at scale, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated hands-on architecture experience defining multi-year roadmaps for large-scale distributed platforms and delivering them to production.
- Deep experience with event streaming, high-throughput ingestion pipelines, and time-series or large-scale data stores.
- Strong knowledge of distributed-systems concepts including consistency models, failure modes, backpressure, idempotency, and delivery-semantics tradeoffs.
- Hands-on proficiency in Go, Rust, Java, or Scala and the ability to build reference implementations and review production code.
- Extensive AWS or other cloud-native architecture experience involving containerization, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, security, and cost optimization.
- Experience designing multi-tenant platforms with data isolation, access control, governance, observability, and reliability frameworks.
- Established record of setting technical direction beyond one team, influencing stakeholders, and mentoring senior engineers across distributed organizations.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, Go or Rust production experience, network telemetry and management experience, graph databases, AI/ML platform infrastructure, regulated-environment experience, and open-source or technical-writing contributions.
Benefits
- Onsite role in Santa Clara, California, with up to 15% domestic or international travel.
- Base salary range of $212,000–$265,000 USD, plus bonus and equity.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans; matching 401(k); unlimited PTO; and paid holidays.
- Parental and adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureGoGoogle Cloud PlatformgRPCInfluxDBJavaKubernetesNeo4jPrometheusRustScalaTerraform
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About IonQ
IonQ builds trapped-ion quantum computers and offers access to them via major cloud platforms and direct systems for enterprise and research users. The public company (NYSE: IONQ), founded in 2015 and headquartered in College Park, Maryland, sells quantum hardware, cloud services, and development tools used in areas like materials modeling, optimization, and machine learning. Its systems are available through AWS Braket, Microsoft Azure Quantum, and Google Cloud Marketplace.