Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Temporal as a Staff Software Engineer and contribute to the development of core backend service features for our highly scalable, multi-tenant services. You will design, build, and maintain significant portions of our backend functionality, impacting key distributed systems aspects such as latency, scale, reliability, and availability. Collaborate with a team to build a new enterprise offering encompassing both on-premise and dedicated cloud solutions. Your work will be crucial in developing features without increasing the complexity of Temporal's systems. This role requires extensive experience in large-scale distributed systems and concurrent programming. The compensation package includes a competitive salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Go, other similar languages great too
• Experience with infrastructure environments (strong plus)

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!
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com
• Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness
• $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
• $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
• $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
• $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
• $500 / Year Professional Memberships
• $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
• Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness