Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Temporal's Cloud Global Services team as a Staff Software Engineer and play a key role in developing features for Temporal's high-availability services. You will design, build, and maintain core backend functionality, ensuring reliability and scalability across regions and clouds. Collaborate with a team to build a new enterprise offering encompassing on-premise and dedicated cloud solutions. Document design choices, provide operational support through logging and metrics, and create alerts and dashboards for production environments. Contribute ideas to enhance team velocity and ensure the high reliability of the Temporal system. This position offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

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 (pref. Go, Java) in production as Advanced or Expert levels
• Knowledge and experience of reliability so you can 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 for Temporal's high-availability services in-region, cross-region, and re: cross-cloud failover
• Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run services 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

• Experience in multi-region failover efforts in large Cloud services
• 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