Staff Distributed Systems Engineer - Go/Rust Backend

Clutch Canada; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IonQ, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a hands-on Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to join the Network and Security Platform team. You will own the backend services, ingestion pipelines, telemetry processing, and device management, providing real-time visibility and secure, scalable infrastructure.

You will write production-quality Go and/or Rust daily, with strong ownership and a focus on reliability. Collaborate with the Principal Architect to translate architecture decisions into

Qualifications

• Experience building data-intensive backend systems at scale.
• Writes production-quality Go and/or Rust daily with strong operational ownership.
• Comfortable owning backend services end-to-end and ensuring reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship production backend services in Go and/or Rust, measured by code quality, test coverage, and on-time delivery of service milestones.
• Build and maintain high-throughput telemetry ingestion pipelines using gN

Skills

Go

Rust

Distributed systems

Job description

IonQ, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a hands-on Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to join the Network and Security Platform team. You will own the backend services, ingestion pipelines, telemetry processing, and device management, providing real-time visibility and secure, scalable infrastructure.

You will write production-quality Go and/or Rust daily, with strong ownership and a focus on reliability. Collaborate with the Principal Architect to translate architecture decisions into