[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Server
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Temporal is an open source programming model company focused on making applications more reliable and improving the developer experience. The company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain the core Temporal server, contributing to distributed systems features, reliability, performance, operability, and developer experience. The role involves designing and shipping features, collaborating across teams, participating in code reviews, and mentoring junior engineers.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and ship features for the Temporal server
- Solve distributed systems challenges across areas such as task matching, scheduling, workflow execution, visibility, quotas, throttling, persistence, developer primitives, and workflow lifecycle features
- Make thoughtful engineering tradeoffs across developer experience, performance, and operability requirements
- Partner with engineers, product managers, cloud teams, and customer-facing teams to build scalable technical solutions
- Improve the reliability and operability of the server through testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation
- Participate in design discussions and code reviews to help maintain a high-quality codebase
- Contribute to improving the developer experience for both open source users and enterprise customers
- Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge with teammates
Skills
- * 5+ years of experience building and operating production distributed systems
- * Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, scheduling, and performance
- * Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts including multi-threading and concurrency
- * Experience writing concurrent code in production with languages like Go or Java or other applicable languages with skill level as "high end of Intermediate" and/or "Advanced" or "Expert" levels
- * Experience building high-scale or performance-sensitive backend services, such as request-serving systems, task queues, scheduling systems, streaming or replication pipelines, rate limiting, sharding, load balancing, workflow engines, or orchestration systems
- * Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and operational skills with a focus on reliability and observability
- * Experience designing and building backend APIs or platform services
- * Ability to work collaboratively across engineering teams and contribute to technical discussions
- * Experience with open source software or communities is a plus
- * Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP is a plus
- * Experience with technologies such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL is a plus
- * Experience with Kubernetes, CRDs, KEDA, or Argo is a plus
Benefits
- This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
- Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
- Empower 401K Plan
- Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com.
- Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, home office setup, professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
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