Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Applications
Temporal Technologies1 day ago
Base Salary
$141k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own technical design and delivery for services supporting namespace scalability, reliability, and customer data products.
- Partner with analytics and product engineers to define durable event schemas that support meaningful customer insights.
- Define and evolve high-throughput data pipeline architecture while balancing freshness, query cost, tenant isolation, and fault tolerance.
- Establish schema contracts, anomaly detection, and alerting to ensure data correctness.
- Set quality standards through code and design reviews and improve maintainability, observability, and incident response.
- Mentor engineers, unblock execution, and foster a culture of ownership and learning.
- Improve customer and developer experience through automation, tooling, and platform improvements.
Requirements
- Deep experience designing and delivering production-grade backend systems in cloud environments with ownership of architecture and operational outcomes.
- Strong proficiency in at least one systems or backend language, with Go preferred.
- Hands-on experience building and operating distributed systems involving concurrency, reliability, scaling, consistency, and failure handling.
- Experience with data pipelines and storage systems including Postgres, Redshift, Kafka/Kinesis, S3-compatible storage, and ClickHouse, with a track record of ensuring correctness and traceability at scale.
- Experience with production operations, observability, incident response, performance tuning, on-call readiness, and continuous delivery.
- Ability to translate ambiguous requirements from product managers and solutions architects into clear technical plans.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including writing design documents and explaining complex systems.
- A builder’s mindset and interest in simplifying workflows, improving tooling, and maintaining durable systems.
Benefits
- High-impact ownership over systems tied to revenue, customer lifecycle, and platform scalability.
- Collaborative engineering culture focused on quality, pragmatism, and measurable outcomes.
- Exceptional technical colleagues and a feedback-rich environment.
- Lean processes and autonomy without unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Strong emphasis on reliability and operational excellence balanced with rapid iteration.
- Mentorship, thoughtful design, and steady improvements in a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities.
Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftApache KafkaClickHouseDatabricksGoGoogle BigQueryGoogle CloudgRPCKubernetesPostgreSQLSnowflake
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Temporal Technologies
Temporal Technologies builds an open-source durable workflow platform that software teams use to orchestrate long-running, stateful application logic across services. It monetizes through a managed cloud offering and commercial support for its server and SDKs. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, it lists public adopters such as Netflix, Snap, Indeed, and Datadog.