Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Server
Temporaltechnologies•6h ago
United StatesRemote$176K–$237.6KFull-timeSenior Level5+ yrs exp
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- About Us
- Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable
- 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
- 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
- want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities
- want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
- Summary
- Temporal is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Open Source Server team.
- This team builds and maintains the core Temporal server. Its scope is broad, including Matching, Applications, Foundations, task processing, quotas and throttling, visibility, developer-facing primitives such as standalone activities, schedules
- workflow experience improvements such as Continue-As-New, pause
- We do not expect one person to cover all of these areas. We're looking for an engineer who is excited to learn the system, contribute across the codebase
- help improve the reliability, performance, operability
- developer experience of Temporal.
- This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll collaborate with experienced engineers to design, build, and operate the core of Temporal's distributed systems platform.
- What You'll Do
- 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.
- What You'll Bring
- 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
- 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.
- What Makes You a Good Fit
- You enjoy solving challenging distributed systems problems while keeping the developer experience in mind.
- You like learning large codebases and making meaningful technical contributions over time.
- You take ownership of your work and collaborate well with teammates.
- You enjoy balancing technical depth with practical engineering decisions.
- 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.
- Compensation
- The estimated pay range for this role is $176,000 - $237,600, depending on experience and location.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
- Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location
- job level assessed during the interview process.
- Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded.
- U.S. 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)
- Empower 401K Plan
- 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
- are issued in partnership with Remote.com . Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals
- access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
- Travel
- Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites
- other meaningful moments that bring us together.
- Additional Perks
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
- $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
- $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
- Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status
- any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit
- business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
- Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity
- reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs
- activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.
- We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.
Required skills
distributed systemsGoJavaAWSAzureGCPElasticsearchOpenSearchClickHouseCassandraPostgreSQLMySQLKubernetesCRDsKEDA