Senior Staff Backend Engineer – Go/Rust (DS)

Clutch Canada; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 216,000 - 283,000; Full time

Job summary

IonQ, Inc. is seeking a deeply hands-on Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to lead backend services for the Network and Security Platform in Santa Clara, CA.

You will own ingestion pipelines, time-series storage, real-time processing, and APIs, writing production Go and/or Rust and ensuring operability and observability for a scalable quantum platform. This role emphasizes architectural influence, on-call ownership, and collaboration with the Principal Architect to advance IonQ’s

Qualifications

• 12+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Proven, hands-on proficiency in Go and/or Rust.
• Strong experience with distributed data systems and event streaming.
• Experience with cloud-native deployment and observability tooling.

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 use.
• Own service reliability end-to-end and participate in on-call rotation.

Skills

Go

Rust

Distributed systems

Cloud experience

Terraform

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

SQL

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

InfluxDB

Prometheus

Docker

gRPC

REST APIs

Job description

IonQ, Inc. is seeking a deeply hands-on Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to lead backend services for the Network and Security Platform in Santa Clara, CA.

You will own ingestion pipelines, time-series storage, real-time processing, and APIs, writing production Go and/or Rust and ensuring operability and observability for a scalable quantum platform. This role emphasizes architectural influence, on-call ownership, and collaboration with the Principal Architect to advance IonQ’s