Backend Systems Engineer - Distributed & Telemetry

Ionq; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 187,944 - 246,068; Full time

Job summary

IonQ in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to own backend services for the Network and Security Platform. You will design high-throughput ingestion pipelines, time-series storage, and APIs for internal and external use, writing production-grade Go and/or Rust.

Collaborate with the Principal Architect to ensure reliable, observable systems. The role is onsite in Santa Clara, CA with up to 15% travel.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend experience shipping production services at scale.
• Proficiency in Go and/or Rust with production systems experience.
• Strong background in distributed data systems and ingestion pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship production backend services in Go and/or Rust for scale.
• Build high-throughput telemetry ingestion pipelines and APIs.
• Own reliability, monitoring, and on-call ownership for services.

Skills

Go

Rust

Kubernetes

Distributed Systems

Kafka

SQL

Docker

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

TimescaleDB

Tools

Docker

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

TimescaleDB

Job description

IonQ in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to own backend services for the Network and Security Platform. You will design high-throughput ingestion pipelines, time-series storage, and APIs for internal and external use, writing production-grade Go and/or Rust.

Collaborate with the Principal Architect to ensure reliable, observable systems. The role is onsite in Santa Clara, CA with up to 15% travel.