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Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer

About IonQ: IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers,

Company

IonQ

Location

Santa Clara, California, United States

Status

Open

Posted

2026-07-08T12:42:38+00:00

IonQ seeks a Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer for its Network and Security Platform team in Santa Clara. The role covers backend services from design through operation: telemetry ingestion from large device fleets, time-series storage, event streaming, and RESTful or gRPC APIs. It covers Kubernetes deployment, Terraform across AWS, GCP and Azure, observability, on-call and incident response. The posting asks for 12+ years of backend engineering, production Go and/or Rust, and distributed data systems experience. The position includes architecture collaboration with a Principal Architect and mentoring Staff and Senior engineers.