Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer
Core
Design and ship production backend services, high-throughput telemetry ingestion pipelines, and event-streaming pipelines for large device fleets.
Role type
Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer
Builds
Production backend services, telemetry pipelines, RESTful/gRPC APIs, time-series storage, and containerized infrastructure on Kubernetes.
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, network telemetry, and observability.
Required skills
Go, Rust, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP/Azure, gRPC, REST APIs, time-series databases, event streaming, SQL, distributed tracing, SLOs, incident response, system design, mentorship.
Preferred skills
Network telemetry, graph databases (Neo4j, Amazon Neptune), YANG data modeling, multi-tenant SaaS, open-source contributions, FedRAMP/NIST compliance.
Responsibilities
Design and ship production backend services; build high-throughput telemetry ingestion pipelines; develop RESTful and gRPC APIs; implement time-series storage and event-streaming pipelines; own service reliability through on-call and incident response; deploy containerized services on Kubernetes; maintain Terraform infrastructure; partner on platform architecture; define engineering standards and mentor engineers.
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence and mentorship. (via careerplan.io/jobs/22524-senior-staff-distributed-systems-engineer-at-ionq)
