# Senior Software Engineer, Observability

**Company:** [Temporal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/temporal)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $141k – $231k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, SQL, AWS, GCP, ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos, Temporal, Distributed Systems, Data Streaming, Networking, Operating Systems
**Posted:** 2026-02-09

> Senior software engineer responsible for designing, deploying, and operating large-scale observability and distributed systems. The role requires expert Kubernetes and query-development skills, proficiency in a high-level language such as Go, and cloud experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, deployment, operationalization, support, and maintenance.
- Design and build multi-component, horizontally scalable distributed systems.
- Formulate feature designs, incorporate stakeholder feedback, and drive consensus.
- Document design decisions and operational knowledge.
- Provide unit, integration, performance, and production-readiness testing.
- Investigate incidents methodically and identify root causes.
- Evaluate performance and reliability tradeoffs at scale.
- Participate in the team on-call rotation.
- Understand internal developer and external customer needs and apply that knowledge to product and feature design.
- Participate in design reviews and share principles for building reliable systems at scale.

## Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to develop resilient, high-performance distributed systems in production.
- Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting large-scale, geographically distributed observability systems or high-throughput data streaming and processing pipelines.
- Expert proficiency in one or more high-level programming languages, preferably Go.
- Expert-level Kubernetes skills.
- Expert-level query development skills, preferably SQL.
- Hands-on experience with a cloud provider, preferably AWS or Google Cloud.
- Thorough understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking.
- Familiarity with monitoring, instrumentation, and infrastructure configuration best practices.
- User-first mindset, pragmatic decision-making, self-direction, and strong collaboration and communication skills.

## Compensation
- Annual salary: $140,800–$231,000.

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