# Staff Software Engineer - Open Source Server

**Company:** [Temporal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/temporal)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $212k – $286k/yr
**Skills:** Go, Distributed Systems, Concurrent Programming, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, Temporal, Reliability Engineering, Scalability, Infrastructure, Cloud Services
**Posted:** 2026-03-30

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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