# Staff Software Engineer, Open Source Server

**Company:** [Temporal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/temporal)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $278k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Concurrency, Backend Services, Reliability Engineering, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, Go, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Performance Testing, Observability, Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2023-12-28

> Staff Software Engineer designing and operating highly scalable, multi-tenant backend services, with emphasis on distributed systems, concurrency, reliability, and production operations. Experience with Elasticsearch or ClickHouse is required; Go and infrastructure experience are preferred.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and implement core backend service features.
- Provide unit, integration, and performance test coverage for owned features.
- Document design decisions and operational knowledge needed to deploy and run services.
- Add service-level logs and metrics to support cloud service operation.
- Create alerts, dashboards, and runbooks for production.
- Improve team velocity.

## Requirements
- Extensive experience designing large-scale distributed systems for reliability and scalability.
- Operational experience in large-scale distributed-systems environments.
- Experience developing highly concurrent systems and writing concurrent production code.
- Strong understanding of reliability engineering.
- Experience with Elasticsearch or ClickHouse.

## Nice to Have
- Familiarity with Go or similar languages.
- Experience with infrastructure environments.

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