Senior Software Engineer, Observability

Temporal; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal Technologies seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Infrastructure Team, focusing on observability for internal and customer-facing systems. You will influence the end-to-end lifecycle, design scalable multi-component services, and drive reliability across Temporal’s ecosystem.

You will collaborate across teams, contribute to design reviews, and develop expertise in Temporal’s architecture and tooling. A strong emphasis on performance, monitoring, and operator capabilities is required.

Qualifications

• Experience building distributed systems at scale.
• Background in observability or data pipelines is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, SQL, and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end software development lifecycle for features.
• Design, review, implement, deploy and maintain software.
• Investigate issues, identify root causes, and optimize performance.
• Collaborate in design reviews and share reliability principles.

Skills

User-first mindset

Impact-driven

Pragmatic approach

Self-directed work

Collaboration and communication

Ability to work under on-call rotation

Leadership in design reviews

Tools

Kubernetes

SQL

Go

Job description

ROLE SUMMARY

We have an opening for a Senior Software Engineer on our Infrastructure Team, with specific focus on Observability - both internal and customer-facing. This is an opportunity to join a mission-critical engineering team that is driving the productivity and reliability of Temporal’s developers and core platforms, respectively. We are a passionate team of talented developers who truly care about our mission and enjoy working deeply across the entire Temporal ecosystem to be a force multiplier across the organization.

Team Highlights

• Core observability tech stack: Clickhouse, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos, Kubernetes, Temporal.
• Our recent observability project had the biggest impact to Temporal margins of any engineering effort in company history while also unlocking unprecedented operator capabilities.
• “Observability is the beating heart of our ability to deliver a mission critical service” - Preeti Somal, Senior VP of Engineering.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Build

• Lead the end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle: goals & requirements solicitation, design & review, implementation, operationalization & deployment, support & maintenance.
• Formulate feature designs, review with stakeholders, iterate to incorporate feedback and drive consensus.
• Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and manage the software you develop.
• Provide appropriate test and production readiness coverage for unit, integration, and performance of your feature ownership area.

Own

• Set a high bar for technical excellence and take pride in the software you develop.
• Design and build multi-component, distributed systems that operate at scale.
• Investigate issues with a methodical approach to identify a root cause.
• Understand performance and reliability implications of design options at scale. Make related tradeoffs.
• Able to participate in the team’s on-call rotation.

Learn

• Expert-level knowledge of architecture and services of assigned domain. Strong command over all aspects of the Temporal ecosystem. This role provides a strong opportunity for diverse technical exposure!
• Investigate and understand ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power our mission.
• Deeply understand the needs of Temporal internal developers and external customers, and leverage that knowledge for product development and feature design.

Collaborate

• Participate in design reviews and contribute to design of other features.
• Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• User-first mindset. You’re excited by the opportunity to empower others through tooling, and enjoy deeply internalizing user goals and use cases to build effective solutions.
• Motivated by impact. You are driven by a desire to make positive things happen.
• Strong opinions about tools and technology that are equally balanced by a pragmatic drive for impact.
• Ability to work in a self-directed manner in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Skills & Technologies

• Demonstrated ability to develop horizontally scalable, resilient, and high performance distributed systems in a production environment.
• Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting large scale, geographically distributed observability and/or high throughput data streaming/processing pipelines, or similar.
• Expert in one or more high-level programming languages, preferably Go.
• Expert-level Kubernetes skills.
• Expert-level query development skills, preferably SQL.
• Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers, preferably AWS, or GCP.
• Thorough understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking.
• Familiarity with best practices regarding monitoring, instrumenting, and configuring infrastructure.

Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.

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