Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer

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Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer in USA new

IonQ
Full time
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USA
10/02/2026
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Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities

Design and ship production backend services in Go and/or Rust.
Build high-throughput telemetry ingestion pipelines using gNMI, NETCONF, and SNMP across large device fleets.
Develop RESTful and gRPC APIs for internal consumers and external integrations.
Implement time-series storage and event-streaming pipelines with appropriate performance, retention, partitioning, archival, and delivery semantics.
Own service reliability through on-call participation, incident response, observability, SLOs, and systemic improvements.
Deploy containerized services on Kubernetes and maintain Terraform infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Partner with the Principal Architect on platform architecture and tested production implementations.
Define engineering standards and mentor Staff and Senior engineers while serving as a cross-organizational distributed-systems resource.

Requirements

12+ years of backend software engineering experience shipping production services at scale.
Hands-on production proficiency in Go and/or Rust.
Experience with distributed data systems, event streaming, time-series databases, and high-throughput ingestion pipelines.
Strong knowledge of consistency models, failure modes, backpressure, idempotency, and exactly-once versus at-least-once processing.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and at least one of AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Familiarity with structured logging, Prometheus or Grafana, OpenTelemetry, metrics, and distributed tracing.
Ability to write SQL and work with relational and time-series data models, schema design, and query optimization.
Experience defining and promoting TDD, code review, CI/CD, and on-call practices across multiple teams or organizations.
Established record of setting organization-level technical direction for distributed systems and infrastructure.
Preferred qualifications include network telemetry or network-management experience, graph databases such as Neo4j or Amazon Neptune, YANG data modeling, multi-tenant SaaS, open-source infrastructure or observability contributions, technical writing, and experience with FedRAMP, NIST, or comparable regulated environments.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
Matching 401(k), unlimited PTO, and paid holidays.
Parental and adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend.
Onsite role in Santa Clara, California, with up to 15% domestic or international travel.
Employment is subject to applicable U.S. export-control and government-contract restrictions, including possible U.S. Person or licensing requirements.

Salary: $216k - $283k/yr

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