Temporal

Temporal

Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage

United States - Remote Opportunity · Staff+ · Part-time

Sponsorship not specified$212k-$286kDetected 5 days ago
JavaGoDistributed SystemsElasticsearchCassandraGCPAzureKubernetesTemporalCadenceLeadershipCollaboration

About the role

  • We're curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
  • Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.
  • Travel Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection.

Responsibilities

  • Design & build distributed data systems - craft APIs, schemas, and replication paths that keep petabytes of workflow history durable and query-able.
  • Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run service with those features.
  • Drive reliability & performance - own SLOs, create chaos-test plans, profile hot paths, and lead incident reviews.
  • Technical leadership - break down roadmap epics, mentor mid-level engineers, steward design docs through RFC.
  • Cross-team collaboration - partner with the Server, Cloud, and DX teams to land features end-to-end.

Requirements

  • Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
  • 5 or more years of experience as an "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer" of highly scalable distributed systems. see HERE for more info re: "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer"
  • 5 or more years of experience as an "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer" of highly scalable distributed systems. see

Nice to have

  • Experience with Elastic Search and/or Clickhouse
  • Prior contributions to Temporal, Cadence, or other workflow engines.
  • Deep expertise in a storage domain (LSM trees, columnar stores, transactional logs, etc.).
  • Operated multi-region, ≥99.99 % uptime services.
  • Experience working with Open Source Systems.

Skills

  • Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts including multi-threading and concurrency.
  • Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Compensation

  • The estimated pay range for this role is $212,000 - $286,000 depending on experience and location.
  • ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets.

Benefits

  • 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)
  • Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
  • International Benefits
  • Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com.

Company info

  • Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer's toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.
  • Our values guide us -they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We're curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
  • Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
  • Cloud Data Store (CDS) owns the storage, retrieval, and lifecycle of all workflow data at planet scale. We design the persistence APIs, build storage abstractions that run across cloud vendors, and deliver the observability that lets customers trust their state machines for years. [To see more detail re: the Temporal CDS Eng team, click here ]
  • As a Staff Engineer, you will get the chance to design, build, and maintain significant portions of our backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services.
  • You'll own the custom persistence stack for Temporal Cloud which includes a Write Ahead Log, various metadata stores (Cassandra, etcd), multi-level caches, tiered storage etc.
  • Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster.
  • We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer's toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.
  • Our values guide us -they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact.
  • Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future.
  • If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
  • Cloud Data Store (CDS) owns the storage, retrieval, and lifecycle of all workflow data at planet scale.
  • We design the persistence APIs, build storage abstractions that run across cloud vendors, and deliver the observability that lets customers trust their state machines for years. [To see more detail re: the Temporal CDS Eng team, click here ]

Equal opportunity

  • 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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