We have an opening for a Senior Software Engineer on our Infrastructure Team, with specific focus on Observability - both internal and customer-facing. This is an opportunity to join a mission-critical engineering team that is driving the productivity and reliability of Temporal’s developers and core platforms, respectively. We are a passionate team of talented developers who truly care about our mission and enjoy working deeply across the entire Temporal ecosystem to be a force multiplier across the organization.
What You'll Do
Build
- Lead the end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle: goals & requirements solicitation, design & review, implementation, operationalization & deployment, support & maintenance.
- Formulate feature designs, review with stakeholders, iterate to incorporate feedback and drive consensus.
- Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and manage the software you develop.
- Provide appropriate test and production readiness coverage for unit, integration, and performance of your feature ownership area.
Own
- Set a high bar for technical excellence and take pride in the software you develop.
- Design and build multi-component, distributed systems that operate at scale.
- Investigate issues with a methodical approach to identify a root cause.
- Understand performance and reliability implications of design options at scale. Make related tradeoffs.
- Able to participate in the team’s on-call rotation.
Learn
- Expert-level knowledge of architecture and services of assigned domain. Strong command over all aspects of the Temporal ecosystem. This role provides a strong opportunity for diverse technical exposure!
- Investigate and understand ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power our mission.
- Deeply understand the needs of Temporal internal developers and external customers, and leverage that knowledge for product development and feature design.
Collaborate
- Participate in design reviews and contribute to design of other features.
- Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale.
What You'll Bring
- User-first mindset. You’re excited by the opportunity to empower others through tooling, and enjoy deeply internalizing user goals and use cases to build effective solutions.
- Motivated by impact. You are driven by a desire to make positive things happen.
- Strong opinions about tools and technology that are equally balanced by a pragmatic drive for impact.
- Ability to work in a self-directed manner in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
Skills & Technologies
- Demonstrated ability to develop horizontally scalable, resilient, and high performance distributed systems in a production environment.
- Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting large scale, geographically distributed observability and/or high throughput data streaming/processing pipelines, or similar.
- Expert in one or more high-level programming languages, preferably Go.
- Expert-level Kubernetes skills.
- Expert-level query development skills, preferably SQL.
- Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers, preferably AWS, or GCP.
- Thorough understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking.
- Familiarity with best practices regarding monitoring, instrumenting, and configuring infrastructure.
Team Highlights
- Core observability tech stack: Clickhouse, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos, Kubernetes, Temporal.
- Our recent observability project had the biggest impact to Temporal margins of any engineering effort in company history while also unlocking unprecedented operator capabilities.
- “Observability is the beating heart of our ability to deliver a mission critical service” - Preeti Somal, Senior VP of Engineering.
- The estimated pay range for this role is $180,000 – $225,000, depending on experience and location.
- This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
- 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.
Travel
Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
- $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
Top Skills
What We Do
Temporal develops and distributes the world's leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple.
Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair.
More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industry's most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
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