Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
IonQ · Santa Clara, California, United States
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 81 days IonQ's roles stay open a median of 81 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 11% of IonQ's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at IonQ
- high 104 stale, 2 reposted of 104 open
- Hiring momentum
- 159 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from IonQ's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for IonQ.
About this role
As a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer at IonQ, you will be responsible for building and maintaining backend services that provide real-time visibility and intelligence for network security against quantum threats. Your work will involve designing production-quality services in Go and/or Rust, developing high-throughput ingestion pipelines, and ensuring the reliability of these systems through operational ownership and collaboration with the Principal Architect.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of IonQ as an employer.
What you need
- 6+ years of backend software engineering experience
- Proven proficiency in Go and/or Rust
- Experience building and operating distributed data systems
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems
- Experience with cloud-native deployment
- Familiarity with observability tooling
Nice to have
- Experience with network telemetry protocols
- Hands-on experience with graph databases
- Familiarity with YANG data modeling
- Experience building multi-tenant SaaS backend services
- Contributions to open-source projects
What you get
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- Matching 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO and paid holidays
- Parental/adoption leave
- Legal insurance
- Home technology stipend
Worth weighing
- No remote work mentioned; position is onsite in Santa Clara, CA
- Travel requirement of up to 15%
- Salary range provided but subject to change based on various factors
- Role involves on-call duties and incident response
Summarised from IonQ's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by IonQ on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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