Distributed Systems Engineer II - Open Source Server

Engg; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal Technologies in Seattle is seeking a Software Engineer II for the Open Source Server team. You will design, implement, test, and ship features for the Temporal server, collaborating with peers to tackle distributed systems challenges across matching, scheduling, visibility, and workflow lifecycle.

Ideal candidates bring production backend experience, strong CS fundamentals, and proficiency in Go or Java, with a collaborative approach and passion for reliability, performance, and

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production backend systems (distributed systems experience and concurrency experience).
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including concurrency basics, data structures, and debugging.
• Experience writing production-quality code in Go, Java, or another applicable backend language, with an emphasis on correctness and maintainability.
• Familiarity with core distributed systems concepts (e.g., fault tolerance, consistency tradeoffs, replication, scheduling, performance).
• Ability to break down ambiguous problems into smaller tasks, ask good questions, and incorporate feedback from code review.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and ship well-scoped features and improvements for the Temporal server with support from teammates.
• Work on distributed systems problems in areas such as task matching, scheduling, workflow execution, visibility, quotas, throttling, persistence, developer primitives, and workflow lifecycle features.
• Make thoughtful engineering tradeoffs with guidance, balancing developer experience, performance, and operability requirements.
• Partner with engineers, product managers, cloud teams, and customer-facing teams to understand requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
• Improve the reliability and operability of the server by adding tests, instrumentation, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation.
• Participate in design discussions and code reviews to learn best practices and contribute to a high-quality codebase.
• Contribute to improving the developer experience for open source users and enterprise customers through incremental improvements and bug fixes.
• Share knowledge with teammates and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Go/Java

Concurrency concepts

Debugging and profiling

Tools

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

PostgreSQL/MySQL

AWS/AZURE/GCP

Job description

Temporal Technologies in Seattle is seeking a Software Engineer II for the Open Source Server team. You will design, implement, test, and ship features for the Temporal server, collaborating with peers to tackle distributed systems challenges across matching, scheduling, visibility, and workflow lifecycle.

Ideal candidates bring production backend experience, strong CS fundamentals, and proficiency in Go or Java, with a collaborative approach and passion for reliability, performance, and