Software Design Engineer Jobs

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.

As a Software Design Engineer on the Cloud Team, you are 2-5 years post-graduation and want to grow and learn while impacting Temporal's scalable platform. You will design, build, and maintain meaningful portions of our backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services. Examples of the key distributed systems components you could own include Quotas, Throttling, Permissions, etc. Working in a highly collaborative team, we are building a new enterprise offering that will involve both on-premise and dedicated cloud offerings.

Location: We are a fully remote company. You can be located anywhere within the United States or Canada.

Career Growth and Mentorship

No matter where we are in our careers, mentorship is vital to continued growth and learning. If you join us, you will be paired up with a senior member of the team who is working on what you will work on, adding impact while learning. Everyone who works at Temporal and who joins Temporal learns - we have a wealth of info about Temporal in our internal "Temporal University" :) We also recognize that people learn differently and support your learning style - some people like to read code or watch videos or read. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the culture and direction of Temporal, and grow your scope of influence naturally as we scale.

What You’ll Do

• Document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run services at scale with those features.
• Provide appropriate alerts, dashboards, and runbooks for production.
• Provide appropriate service level logs and metrics to operationalize features for cloud service setup.
• Provide appropriate test coverage unit, integration, and performance for feature ownership areas.
• Design and implement core backend service features.

Experience You’ll Gain

• Learn a new way of developing software for complex distributed engineering problems.
• Learn from and work side-by-side with best-in-class engineers from startups, Uber, Meta, Stripe, Twitter, Twilio, Google, AWS, Microsoft, Adobe, and others.
• Learn, contribute, and scale distributed engineering.

What You’ll Need

• Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts and first principles.
• Knowledge of multi-threading and concurrency.
• First-principles thinking and code design.
• Experience building and running services on AWS and/or GCP.
• Experience with Go, Java, or other applicable languages.
• BS in CS is highly desired.
• 2-5 years of backend engineering experience.
• Experience building systems with technologies like Kafka, Cassandra, MySQL, and Elasticsearch.

Optional Experience:

• Production experience with concurrency programming.
• Exposure to Open Source Systems.
• Experience with Go.
• Exposure to workflow engines.

Compensation:

• The estimated pay range for this role is $150,000 - $170,000
• 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.