Temporal Technologies
Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Server
United States (Remote) · Senior
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About the role
- ROLE SUMMARY Temporal is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Open Source Server team.
- We do not expect one person to cover all of these areas.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and ship features for the Temporal server.
- Partner with engineers, product managers, cloud teams, and customer-facing teams to build scalable technical solutions.
- Participate in design discussions and code reviews to help maintain a high-quality codebase.
- 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.
- Experience designing and building backend APIs or platform services.
- You take ownership of your work and collaborate well with teammates.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production distributed systems.
- You enjoy solving challenging distributed systems problems while keeping the developer experience in mind.
- You enjoy balancing technical depth with practical engineering decisions.
Nice to have
- 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.
Skills
- Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Compensation
- $176k-$231k
Benefits
- You like learning large codebases and making meaningful technical contributions over time.
Company info
- We're looking for an engineer who is excited to learn the system, contribute across the codebase, and help improve the reliability, performance, operability, and developer experience of Temporal.
- Contribute to improving the developer experience for both open source users and enterprise customers.
- You don't need prior Temporal experience, but you're excited to work on the core of a distributed system used by a large open source community and enterprise customers.
Equal opportunity
- Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.
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