Distributed Systems Engineer II — Open Source Server

United States Digital Space LLC

United States

Remote

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Temporal is seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Open Source Server team. You will design, implement, and ship backend features for our distributed systems platform, collaborating with experienced engineers to improve reliability, performance, and developer experience.

The role focuses on areas like task scheduling, workflow execution, visibility, and developer primitives, requiring strong CS fundamentals and production backend experience in Go or Java, with a bias toward correctness and

Qualifications

Experience building and operating production backend systems.
Strong fundamentals in concurrency and data structures.
Experience with distributed systems concepts and debugging.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, test, and ship well-scoped features for the company server.
Address distributed systems problems in task matching, scheduling, and throttling.
Balance performance, usability, and operability in solutions.
Collaborate with product managers, cloud teams, and customer-facing teams.
Improve reliability with tests, instrumentation, dashboards, and runbooks.
Contribute to code reviews and open source developer experience.