Senior Staff Engineer, Open Source Server
Temporal Technologiesover 2 years ago
Base Salary
$208k - $341k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of important server features from proposal through rollout.
- Set technical direction for one or more areas of the Open Source Server team.
- Solve distributed systems problems involving task matching, scheduling, workflow execution, visibility, quotas, throttling, persistence, developer primitives, and workflow lifecycle features.
- Balance reliability, performance, operability, product needs, and open source usability.
- Partner with engineers, product managers, cloud teams, and customer-facing teams to develop technical plans.
- Improve server testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation.
- Review designs and code, mentor engineers, and guide technical decisions.
Requirements
- 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.
- Operational experience with reliability, observability, debugging, incident response, and system operability.
- Experience designing APIs, primitives, or platform features used by other developers.
- Experience working with open source systems or communities.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud infrastructure is a plus.
- Experience with Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL is a plus.
- Experience with Kubernetes controllers, CRDs, KEDA, or Argo is a plus.
Tech Stack
Apache CassandraArgo CDAWSAzureClickHouseElasticsearchGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesMySQLPostgreSQL
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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.