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IonQ

Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer

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about 4 hours ago
Santa Clara, CA, USASenior / Staff+
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Base Salary

$216k - $283k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and ship production backend services in Go and/or Rust.
  • Build and maintain high-throughput telemetry ingestion pipelines.
  • Develop RESTful and gRPC APIs for internal and external data access.
  • Implement and evolve the time-series storage layer for optimal performance.
  • Build event streaming pipelines with validated integration tests.
  • Own service reliability and participate in on-call rotations.
  • Instrument services with logging, tracing, and metrics for diagnostics.
  • Package and deploy services as containerized workloads on Kubernetes.
  • Partner with the Principal Architect to implement platform architecture decisions.
  • Define engineering standards and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of backend software engineering experience.
  • Proficiency in Go and/or Rust with a record of building production systems.
  • Experience with distributed data systems and event streaming technologies.
  • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems concepts.
  • Experience with cloud-native deployment and containerization.
  • Familiarity with observability tooling and structured logging.
  • Comfortable writing SQL and working with relational and time-series data.
  • Strong engineering practices including TDD and CI/CD.
  • Established record of setting technical direction at an organizational level.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • Matching 401(k) program.
  • Unlimited PTO and paid holidays.
  • Parental/adoption leave.
  • Legal insurance and home technology stipend.

Categories

BackendData EngineeringDevOps