Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer
IonQ · Santa Clara
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- Company
- IonQ
- Location
- Santa Clara
- Salary
- $188,000 - $235,000
- Posted
- July 8, 2026
About this job
1720 The Role: We are looking for a deeply hands-on Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to join the team building IonQ’s Network and Security Platform. You will own the backend services — ingestion pipelines, telemetry processing, device management — that give operators real-time visibility into their networks and the intelligence to make them quantum-safe. This is infrastructure that matters: the systems you build will underpin IonQ’s mission to secure the world’s networks against quantum threats. In this role, you will own backend services end-to-end — from high-throughput ingestion pipelines collecting telemetry from large device fleets, to time-series storage, real-time processing engines, and the APIs that surface platform data to the rest of the organization.…
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