Staff Software Engineer, Observability
Temporal Technologies4 months ago
Base Salary
$170k - $278k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end software development lifecycle from requirements and design through implementation, deployment, support, and maintenance.
- Design and build horizontally scalable, resilient, high-performance distributed systems for observability and infrastructure.
- Lead feature design and stakeholder reviews, document design and operational decisions, and drive consensus.
- Provide unit, integration, performance, and production-readiness coverage for owned features.
- Investigate issues, identify root causes, and evaluate performance and reliability tradeoffs at scale.
- Participate in the team’s on-call rotation and support software in production.
- Lead and mentor team members and contribute to broader design reviews and reliability practices.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to develop horizontally scalable, resilient, high-performance distributed systems in production.
- Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting large-scale geographically distributed observability systems or high-throughput data streaming and processing pipelines.
- Expertise in one or more high-level programming languages, preferably Go.
- Expert-level Kubernetes skills and 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 monitoring, instrumentation, and infrastructure configuration best practices.
- Strong collaboration, communication, self-direction, user focus, and pragmatic technical judgment.
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About Temporal Technologies
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.