# Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Server

**Company:** [Temporal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/temporal)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $260k – $325k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Go, Java, Distributed Systems, Concurrency, Fault Tolerance, Scheduling, Performance Optimization, AWS, Azure, GCP, Elasticsearch, Opensearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Postgres
**Posted:** 2026-06-17

> Lead design and implementation of server features for a distributed workflow engine. Requires 12+ years building production distributed systems and strong technical leadership.

## Job Description

## 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!

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