Quick overview
Job description
We are currently hiring Staff Software Engineers across multiple back-end systems teams. The work you will do as a Staff Engineer is key to developing features without complicating Temporal, as the increasing complexity of our systems creates additional challenges. You will design, build, and maintain significant portions of our backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services. Examples of the key distributed systems aspects you can impact include (but not limited to) latency, scale, reliability, multi-region failover, and availability.
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.
To see more details about projects the OSS team is working on and demo videos, click here.
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
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
What You'll Bring
Rich experience as an "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer" in large-scale distributed systems design (reliability, scalability). see HERE for more info re: "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer"
Operational experience in large-scale distributed systems environments
Experience developing highly concurrent systems
Demonstrated experience writing concurrent code in production as Advanced or Expert levels. see HERE for more info re: Advanced or Expert levels
Knowledge and experience of reliability so you can further ensure the high reliability of the Temporal system
Experience with Elastic Search or Clickhouse
Ideas and actions to improve the velocity of the team
Nice to Have
Familiarity with Go, other similar languages great too
Experience with infrastructure environments (strong plus)
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.
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