Senior Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems (Go/Rust)

Physics World; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

IonQ, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a deeply hands-on Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to join our Network and Security Platform team.

You will own backend services, ingestion pipelines, telemetry processing, and device management delivering real-time visibility and quantum-safe operations. You write production-grade Go and/or Rust, own end-to-end reliability, and collaborate with the Principal Architect to translate architecture decisions into dependable implementations.

Qualifications

• 6+ years backend software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Go and/or Rust with production systems.
• Strong experience with distributed data systems and event streaming.
• Cloud-native deployment with Docker, Kubernetes, and at least one major cloud.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship production backend services in Go and/or Rust.
• Build telemetry ingestion pipelines and APIs for internal/external use.
• Ensure reliability and observability with on-call ownership and post-mortems.

Skills

Go

Rust

Distributed systems

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

InfluxDB

TimescaleDB

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL

Job description

IonQ, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a deeply hands-on Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to join our Network and Security Platform team.

You will own backend services, ingestion pipelines, telemetry processing, and device management delivering real-time visibility and quantum-safe operations. You write production-grade Go and/or Rust, own end-to-end reliability, and collaborate with the Principal Architect to translate architecture decisions into dependable implementations.