Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer — Go/Rust Backend
ionqSanta Clara (CA)
Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer — Go/Rust Backend
Posted 2 days ago
ionqSanta Clara (CA)
SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
IonQ, a leading quantum platform, is hiring a Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to own backend services, telemetry ingestion, and device management for a cloud-native, multi-cloud platform. You’ll build high-throughput pipelines, time-series storage, and APIs with Go and/or Rust, while ensuring observability, reliability, and scalable architecture across IonQ's networks and security platform.
You will partner with principal architects to set technical direction, mentor engineers, and
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