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TemporalTemporalUnited States

Staff Software Engineer - Open Source Server

Designs and implements core backend features for open source server, focusing on large-scale distributed systems with high reliability and scalability. Brings deep experience in concurrent systems, operational environments, and tools like Elasticsearch or ClickHouse.

212k – 286k/yr
RemoteBackend Engineering

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Design and implement core backend service features
  • Provide appropriate test coverage for unit, integration, and performance for your feature ownership area
  • Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run service with those features
  • Provide appropriate service level logs and metrics to make features operational for cloud service setup
  • Provide appropriate alerts, dashboards, and runbooks for production

What You'll Bring

  • Rich experience as an "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer" in large-scale distributed systems design (reliability, scalability)
  • Operational experience in large-scale distributed systems environments
  • Experience developing highly concurrent systems
  • Demonstrated experience writing concurrent code in production as Advanced or Expert levels
  • Knowledge and experience of reliability so you can further ensure the high reliability of the Temporal system
  • Experience with Elastic Search or Clickhouse
  • Ideas and actions to improve the velocity of the team

Nice to Have

  • Familiarity with Go, other similar languages great too
  • Experience with infrastructure environments (strong plus)

Compensation

  • Estimated pay range: $212,000 - $286,000 depending on experience and location
  • Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan

Skills

GoDistributed SystemsConcurrent ProgrammingElasticsearchClickHouseTemporalReliability EngineeringScalabilityInfrastructureCloud Services
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