Senior Software Engineer - Open Source Server

About Us

Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.

Our values guide us —they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We’re curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.

Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!

Summary

As a Senior Engineer , you will get the chance to design, build, and maintain significant portions of our backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services. Examples of the key distributed systems components you’ll own include Quotas, Throttling, Visibility, Task Processing, Matching etc. Working in the highly collaborative Open Source Server team , we’ll look to build a new enterprise offering that involves both on-premise and dedicated cloud offerings. The Open Source Server team works on core Temporal. See Temporal Git here .

To see more details about projects the OSS team is working on and demo videos, click here - [new window opens]

What You'll Do

• Design and implement core backend service features.
• Provide appropriate test coverage for unit, integration, and performance for your feature ownership area.
• Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run service with those features.
• Provide appropriate service level logs and metrics to make features operational for cloud service setup.
• Provide appropriate alerts, dashboards, and runbooks for production.

What You'll Bring

• At least 6 years of experience in a production environment as an "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer" of highly scalable distributed systems. see HERE for more info re: "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer"
• Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts including multi-threading and concurrency.
• Experience writing concurrent code in production with languages like Go or Java or other applicable languages with skill level as "high end of Intermediate" and/or "Advanced" or "Expert" levels. see HERE for more info re: "high end of Intermediate" and/or "Advanced" or "Expert levels"
• Experience working with Open Source Systems.
• Experience building and running services on AWS. Bonus: Microsoft Azure and Google GCP experience.
• Experience with Elastic Search or Clickhouse
• Exper