Senior Software Design Engineer - Oss

Temporal is growing, and we welcome great people to enable our growth. We are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking and want to influence our future. If you want to be part of an amazing team, have a passion for open-source software, and a desire to build strong developer communities, then come join us!

Temporal helps developers focus on the important things, like writing business logic, and spend less time worrying about the underlying infrastructure. We have a great open-source community filled with awesome developers (who are also our users!) providing us with real-time feedback and contributions. Temporal is backed by top VC firms, with a well built team of professionals from various successful start-ups and well-known technology companies. We always work toward building the best community, and if these things interest you too, we’d love to hear from you.

Temporal’s Open Source Server (OSS) team is responsible for developing all of Temporal’s server-side features to support Temporal as the Durable Execution Platform. As Temporal becomes the foundation of more mission-critical systems, ensuring high reliability is our top priority. The projects from the Open Source Server (OSS) team range from developer-facing features to non-user-facing backend systems.

As a Senior Engineer, you will get the chance to design, build, and maintain significant portions of our backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services. Examples of the key distributed systems components you’ll own include Quotas, Throttling, Visibility, Task Processing, Matching etc. Working in a highly collaborative team, we’ll look to build a new enterprise offering that will involve both on-premise and dedicated cloud offerings.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement core backend service features.
• Provide appropriate test coverage for unit, integration, and performance for your feature ownership area.
• Provide appropriate alerts, dashboards, and runbooks for production.
• 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.

What You’ll Need

• Experience building and running services on AWS. Bonus: Microsoft Azure and Google GCP experience.
• Experience with Go or Java or other applicable languages.
• Experience building systems with technologies like Kafka, Cassandra, MySQL, Elasticsearch.
• Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts including multi-threading and concurrency.
• 5 or more years of experience working with highly scalable distributed systems.
• Experience working with Open Source Systems.

Compensation:

• The estimated pay range for this role is $175,000 - $225,000.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

Benefits and perks outside the United States vary by country, and we aim to have the value that non-US employees receive equate as closely as possible to those received by employees in the United States. Temporal will offer generous medical, dental and other insurance, unlimited time off (or maximum allowed by country), and parental leave. Additionally, Temporal offers funding for learning/career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware at no cost to you), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.