Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Temporal, a leading open-source programming model company, as a Staff Software Engineer. You will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining core backend services for highly scalable, multi-tenant applications. This involves developing features, ensuring robust testing and documentation, and establishing reliable operational processes. You will contribute to a new enterprise offering encompassing on-premise and dedicated cloud solutions. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in large-scale distributed systems and a passion for improving developer experiences. Competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package are offered.

Requirements

• Rich experience in large-scale distributed systems design (reliability, scalability)
• Operational experience in large-scale distributed systems
• Experience developing highly concurrent systems
• Knowledge and experience to further ensure the high reliability of the Temporal system
• 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
• 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)
• Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com
• 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
• The estimated pay range for this role is $170,000 - $240,000
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan