Distributed Systems Engineer II - Open Source Server

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Open Source Server team. You will design, implement, test, and ship features for the Temporal server, collaborating with engineers to build reliable, scalable distributed systems.

You will work on areas like task matching, scheduling, visibility, and workflow primitives, participate in design reviews, improve operability with tests and dashboards, and help enhance developer experience for open source users and enterprise

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production backend systems (distributed systems experience and concurrency experience).
• Strong CS 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 (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.
• Comfort working collaboratively across teams and communicating progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly.

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

Concurrency

CS fundamentals

Go/Java

Code review

Collaborative teamwork

Tools

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

ClickHouse

Cassandra

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Kubernetes

Job description

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Open Source Server team. You will design, implement, test, and ship features for the Temporal server, collaborating with engineers to build reliable, scalable distributed systems.

You will work on areas like task matching, scheduling, visibility, and workflow primitives, participate in design reviews, improve operability with tests and dashboards, and help enhance developer experience for open source users and enterprise