# Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Server

**Company:** [Temporal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/temporal)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $176k – $238k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Java, Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Postgres, MySQL, AWS, GCP, Azure
**Posted:** 2026-07-15

> Design, implement, and operate features for the open-source Temporal server, solving distributed systems challenges in scheduling, execution, persistence, and observability. Requires 5+ years building production distributed systems with strong concurrency and backend service experience.

## Job Description

## 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, or 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.

**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!

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