Temporal Technologies

Temporal Technologies

Senior Staff Engineer, Open Source Server

United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$260k-$325kDetected 865 days ago
JavaGoDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLMySQLElasticsearchCassandraAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTemporalIncident ResponseLoad BalancingLeadership

About the role

  • This team works on the core Temporal server.
  • We do not expect one person to cover all of these areas.
  • This is a hands-on technical leadership role.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of important server features, from proposal through rollout.
  • Partner with engineers, product managers, cloud teams, and customer-facing teams to turn hard problems into clear technical plans.
  • Improve how we build and run the server through better testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation.
  • Review designs and code, mentor engineers, and help the team make good technical decisions.
  • Strong technical leadership experience, including leading design work, aligning engineers, and driving complex projects to completion.
  • Temporal is looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to join the Open Source Server team as a technical lead.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience building and operating production distributed systems.
  • Production experience with Go, Java, or a similar backend language.

Nice to have

  • Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure or GCP experience is a plus.
  • Experience with systems such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL is a plus.
  • Experience with Kubernetes controllers, CRDs, KEDA, or Argo is a plus.

Compensation

  • The estimated pay range for this role is $260,000 - $325,000 depending on experience and location.

Benefits

  • Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

Company info

  • You do not need to know Temporal already, but you should be excited to work on the core of a distributed system used by a large open source community and enterprise customers.

Equal opportunity

  • Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
  • Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.
  • If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.

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