Base Salary
$216k - $283k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and ship production backend services in Go and/or Rust.
- Build high-throughput telemetry ingestion pipelines using gNMI, NETCONF, and SNMP across large device fleets.
- Develop APIs using gRPC to expose platform data to 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 that meet 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.
- Identify and resolve reliability, scalability, and architectural gaps across the platform.
- Deploy containerized services on Kubernetes and maintain Terraform infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Contribute to multi-cloud deployment patterns supporting availability and data-residency requirements.
- Partner with the Principal Architect to implement tested, production-grade platform architecture.
- Define engineering standards, code review culture, and mentorship frameworks; coach Staff and Senior engineers.
- Serve as a cross-organizational technical resource for distributed systems and data infrastructure.
Requirements
- 12+ years of backend software engineering experience shipping production services at scale.
- Hands-on production proficiency in Go and/or Rust.
- Experience with event streaming, time-series databases, high-throughput ingestion pipelines, and distributed data systems.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems concepts including 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 tooling.
- Ability to write SQL and work with relational and time-series data models, schema design, and query optimization.
- Experience defining and promoting engineering practices such as TDD, code review, CI/CD, and on-call ownership across multiple teams or companies.
- Established record of setting technical direction for distributed systems and infrastructure at the organizational level.
- Preferred experience with gNMI, NETCONF, SNMP, network equipment vendors or network management platforms.
- Preferred experience with graph databases or graph data models, including Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, or custom adjacency representations.
- Familiarity with YANG data modeling or device configuration schemas.
- Experience building multi-tenant SaaS backend services with data isolation and per-tenant resource management is preferred.
- Open-source infrastructure, observability, or networking contributions, or published technical writing on distributed systems, are preferred.
- Experience in or adjacent to regulated, security-conscious environments such as FedRAMP or NIST is preferred.
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, and a 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.