Senior Open Source Server Engineer Distributed Systems

Temporal Technologies; United States; On-site; USD 141,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal Technologies is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Open Source Server team in the United States. You will design, implement, and ship features for the Temporal server, tackling distributed systems challenges across task matching, scheduling, and workflow execution.

You will work with engineers, product managers, and cloud teams to build scalable solutions, improve reliability, and enhance developer experience for open source users and enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production distributed systems.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, scheduling, and performance.
• Solid CS fundamentals in multi-threading and concurrency.
• Experience writing concurrent code in Go or Java at a high-skill level.
• Experience building high-scale or performance-sensitive backend services.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and ship features for the Temporal server.
• Solve distributed systems challenges across scheduling, visibility, quotas, and workflow lifecycles.
• Balance developer experience with performance and operability.
• Collaborate with engineers, PMs, cloud teams, and customer-facing teams.
• Improve reliability through testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, and runbooks.
• Participate in design discussions and code reviews.
• Contribute to open source and enterprise user experiences.
• Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge.

Skills

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Fault tolerance

Performance

Go

Java

Backend services

Observability

Open source experience

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Code design

Tools

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

ClickHouse

Cassandra

PostgreSQL

MySQL

CRDs

KEDA

Argo

Job description

Temporal Technologies is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Open Source Server team in the United States. You will design, implement, and ship features for the Temporal server, tackling distributed systems challenges across task matching, scheduling, and workflow execution.

You will work with engineers, product managers, and cloud teams to build scalable solutions, improve reliability, and enhance developer experience for open source users and enterprise customers.