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TemporalTemporalUnited States

Staff Software Engineer, Nexus SDK

Staff Software Engineer building and enhancing Temporal's Nexus SDK interfaces for multiple languages. Requires 7+ years building highly scalable distributed systems with strong concurrency expertise and experience designing APIs or open source libraries.

176k – 237k
Remote7+ YOEFullstack Engineering

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Take end-to-end ownership of new features, working with others in the Nexus and OSS teams to deliver exceptional reliability and a great developer experience.
  • Design and build Nexus interfaces for the Temporal SDKs used by customers to work with Temporal in their programming language of choice.
  • Tightly integrate Temporal SDKs with their respective languages, making best use of type systems and language runtimes, to execute application code in a durable, deterministic way.
  • Develop features that provide a foundation for the reliable execution of the current wave of agentic AI systems.
  • Work directly with our community to debug issues that need expert attention, and get feedback on Temporal SDK features and APIs.
  • Write publicly-readable technical documentation describing Temporal concepts and APIs.
  • Travel to meet your coworkers for a week once or twice a year.

What You'll Bring

  • At least 7 years of experience in a production environment 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, Java, Python, Typescript, .NET or other applicable languages with skill level as "high end of Intermediate" and/or "Advanced" or "Expert" levels.
  • Experience designing APIs, SDK libraries or working with Open Source Systems.

Compensation

The estimated pay range for this role is $176,000 - $237,000 depending on experience and location. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

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!

Skills

Distributed SystemsConcurrencyGoJavaPythonTypeScript.NetAPI DesignSdk DevelopmentOpen Source

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