Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage

What You'll Do

• 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.

What You'll Bring

• 5 or more years of experience as an "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer" of highly scalable distributed systems.
• 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 and running services on AWS. Bonus: Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud experience.

Nice to Have

• 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.
• Experience in building Kubernetes controllers and/or CRDs is a plus

Compensation

• Estimated pay range: $176,000 - $237,600.
• Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.