Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage
Staff Software Engineer designing and building scalable distributed data storage systems for workflow history at petabyte scale. Requires 5+ years building highly scalable distributed systems, strong CS fundamentals, advanced concurrent programming in Go/Java, AWS experience, and Elasticsearch/ClickHouse skills.
About the job
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 GCP experience.
- Experience with Elastic Search and/or Clickhouse.
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 K8s controllers and/or CRDs is a plus.
Compensation
The estimated pay range for this role is $212,000 - $286,000 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!
Skills
Go, Java, AWS, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Concurrency, Lsm Trees
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