Senior Staff Backend Engineer – Go/Rust (DS)
Summary
Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer at IonQ leading backend services for the Network and Security Platform in Santa Clara: owning ingestion pipelines, time-series storage, real-time processing, and APIs written in production Go and/or Rust, with emphasis on observability, on-call ownership, and architectural influence on a scalable quantum platform.
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