Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Server

What You'll Do

• Lead the design and implementation of important server features, from proposal through rollout.
• Help set technical direction for one or more areas of the OSS Server team.
• Work on distributed systems problems across areas such as task matching, scheduling, workflow execution, visibility, quotas, throttling, persistence, developer primitives, and workflow lifecycle features.
• Make practical tradeoffs across reliability, performance, operability, product needs, and open source usability.
• Partner with engineers, product managers, cloud teams, and customer-facing teams to turn hard problems into clear technical plans.
• Improve how we build and run the server through better testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation.
• Review designs and code, mentor engineers, and help the team make good technical decisions.

What You'll Bring

• 12+ years of experience building and operating production distributed systems.
• Strong technical leadership experience, including leading design work, aligning engineers, and driving complex projects to completion.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, scheduling, and performance.
• Production experience with Go, Java, or a similar backend language.
• Experience with high-scale or performance-critical systems, such as request serving paths, task queues, scheduling systems, streaming or replication pipelines, rate limiting, sharding, load balancing, workflow engines, or orchestration systems.
• Good operational instincts. You care about reliability, observability, debugging, incident response, and making systems easier to run.
• Experience designing APIs, primitives, or platform features that other developers use.
• Experience working with open source systems or communities.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure or GCP experience is a plus.
• Experience with systems such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL is a plus.
• Experience with Kubernetes controllers, CRDs, KEDA, or Argo is a plus.

Compensation

• The estimated pay range for this role is $260,000 - $325,000 depending on experience and location.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

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!