Senior Staff Distributed Systems Software Engineer, Tech Lead

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.

We have an opening for a Senior Staff Distributed Systems Software Engineer to function as the technical lead on our Open Source Server team. This team is responsible for developing all of Temporal’s server-side features. As Temporal becomes the foundation of more mission-critical systems, ensuring high reliability is our top priority. The work you will do is key to helping our growing team of engineers develop features without complicating the server as the increasing complexity of our systems creates additional challenges.

You will be responsible for multiple components as the Technical Leader.

What you’ll impact:

• Make Temporal the best platform to build next-generation distributed systems applications
• Help shape the future of Temporal
• Change the way developers think of distributed systems applications

What you’ll do:

• Impact the system design for all Temporal server projects through design review
• Mentor other engineers and collaborate with them to ensure the best design and implementation choices, and identify future implications of design choices early in the development cycles
• Design and implement critical server projects

Example projects you'll work on:

• Working on the Temporal server’s extensibility framework
• High availability across multiple regions
• Nexus: The foundation of a future Service marketplace

What you’ll bring to the team:

• Operational experience in large-scale distributed systems
• The ability to think holistically about the Temporal server and help simplify its structure
• Ideas and actions to improve the velocity of the team
• Rich experience in large-scale distributed systems design (reliability, scalability)
• Experience developing highly concurrent systems
• Knowledge and experience to further ensure the high reliability of the Temporal system

What’s good to have:

• Familiarity with Go
• Experience with infrastructure environments (strong plus)

What you can expect:

• Hyper-growth company
• Very strong technical coworkers
• No bureaucracy nonsense
• Bias towards action with reliability
• Prefer incremental improvement and fast iteration
• Awesome engineering culture
• Focus on delivery and impact

Compensation:

• The estimated pay range for this role is $200,000 - $250,000.
• 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.