Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Server
Senior Software Engineer building and operating Temporal’s open-source distributed systems server. The role requires 5+ years of production distributed-systems experience, strong concurrent programming skills, and expertise in scalable backend services, reliability, and observability.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and ship features for the Temporal server.
- Solve distributed-systems challenges involving task matching, scheduling, workflow execution, visibility, quotas, throttling, persistence, developer primitives, and workflow lifecycle features.
- Make engineering tradeoffs across developer experience, performance, and operability.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, cloud, and customer-facing teams to build scalable solutions.
- Improve server reliability and operability through testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation.
- Participate in design discussions and code reviews.
- Improve the developer experience for open-source users and enterprise customers.
- Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production distributed systems.
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, scheduling, and performance.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including multithreading and concurrency.
- Advanced or expert-level experience writing concurrent production code in Go, Java, or another applicable language.
- Experience building high-scale or performance-sensitive backend services, such as request-serving systems, task queues, scheduling systems, streaming or replication pipelines, rate limiting, sharding, load balancing, workflow engines, or orchestration systems.
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and operational skills with a focus on reliability and observability.
- Experience designing and building backend APIs or platform services.
- Ability to collaborate across engineering teams and contribute to technical discussions.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with open-source software or communities.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Experience with Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
- Experience with Kubernetes, CRDs, KEDA, or Argo.
Compensation
- Annual salary range: $140,800–$231,000.
Skills
Go, Java, Distributed Systems, Concurrency, Fault Tolerance, Scheduling, Backend Apis, Observability, AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, MySQL
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