Senior Distributed Systems Engineer is open at IonQ in Santa Clara, California, United States. The posting gives a salary of $163K - $190K. Posted on Jul 23, 2026, and still on IonQ’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We are looking for a deeply hands-on Senior 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…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on IonQ’s careers page.
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