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
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