Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Temporal Technologies is looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to join the Open Source Server team as a technical lead. This hands-on technical leadership role involves designing and building important parts of the server while mentoring other engineers and improving the overall developer experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of important server features, from proposal through rollout
- Help set technical direction for one or more areas of the OSS Server team
- Work on distributed systems problems across areas such as task matching, scheduling, workflow execution, visibility, quotas, throttling, persistence, developer primitives, and workflow lifecycle features
- Make practical tradeoffs across reliability, performance, operability, product needs, and open source usability
- Partner with engineers, product managers, cloud teams, and customer-facing teams to turn hard problems into clear technical plans
- Improve how we build and run the server through better testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation
- Review designs and code, mentor engineers, and help the team make good technical decisions
Skills
- 12+ years of experience building and operating production distributed systems
- Strong technical leadership experience, including leading design work, aligning engineers, and driving complex projects to completion
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, scheduling, and performance
- Production experience with Go, Java, or a similar backend language
- Experience with high-scale or performance-critical systems, such as request serving paths, task queues, scheduling systems, streaming or replication pipelines, rate limiting, sharding, load balancing, workflow engines, or orchestration systems
- Good operational instincts. You care about reliability, observability, debugging, incident response, and making systems easier to run
- Experience designing APIs, primitives, or platform features that other developers use
- Experience working with open source systems or communities
- Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure or GCP experience is a plus
- Experience with systems such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL is a plus
- Experience with Kubernetes controllers, CRDs, KEDA, or Argo is a plus
Benefits
- 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, Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
- Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
- International employees: Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com.
- International employees: Temporal offers perks for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, home office setup, professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
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