Senior Open Source Server Engineer - Distributed Systems

Temporaltechnologies; United States; On-site; USD 176,000 - 237,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Comprehensive healthcare

Dental and Vision

401K

Learning & development

Work from home meals

Internet stipend

Calm app

Professional memberships

Career development

Remote-friendly perks

Job summary

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Open Source Server team and help build the core Temporal server. You will design, implement, and operate features across the distributed systems stack, collaborating with engineers and product teams to deliver scalable, reliable software.

This hands‑on role emphasizes improving developer experience, performance, and operability, with opportunities to mentor juniors and contribute to open source communities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production distributed systems.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems concepts including multi‑threading and concurrency.
• Experience writing concurrent code in production with languages like Go or Java.
• Experience building high‑scale or performance‑sensitive backend services (e.g., request‑serving systems, schedulers, streaming).
• Experience with open source software or communities is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and ship features for the Temporal server.
• Solve distributed systems challenges across tasks like matching, scheduling, workflow execution, and visibility.
• Make thoughtful engineering tradeoffs across developer experience, performance, and operability.
• Partner with engineers, product managers, cloud teams, and customer‑facing teams to build scalable solutions.
• Improve reliability and operability via testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, and runbooks.
• Contribute to design discussions and code reviews to maintain a high‑quality codebase.
• Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge across the team.

Skills

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Fault tolerance

Scheduling

Go

Java

Backend services

Debugging

Observability

Open source

Tools

Kubernetes

CRDs

KEDA

Argo

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

ClickHouse

Cassandra

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Job description

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Open Source Server team and help build the core Temporal server. You will design, implement, and operate features across the distributed systems stack, collaborating with engineers and product teams to deliver scalable, reliable software.

This hands‑on role emphasizes improving developer experience, performance, and operability, with opportunities to mentor juniors and contribute to open source communities.