Staff Software Developer

tempo-io; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Savings plan

Flexible PTO

Learning stipend

Home-office expenses

In-person meetups

Travel opportunities

Job summary

tempo-io is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to build and evolve shared infrastructure supporting a cloud product suite. You will influence architecture, standards, and tooling across services, libraries, and deployments.

You’ll lead cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and ensure reliable, scalable systems with strong security and performance practices. A remote-first setup enables collaboration across time zones.

Qualifications

• Strong server-side development experience (8+ years).
• Proven track record building platform or infrastructure systems at scale.
• Experience with distributed systems, messaging, caching, and data consistency.
• Designs APIs using gRPC or Protocol Buffers across languages; can work with Go, Python, TS.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain platform infrastructure, build systems, and shared libraries across multiple languages.
• Own gRPC and Protocol Buffers definitions and language bindings for service communication.
• Develop infrastructure libraries for messaging, caching, and data persistence; operate tenant data lifecycle services.
• Set architecture, standards, and practices; lead initiatives across multiple services.
• Improve developer experience through tooling, docs, and self-service capabilities; partner with product teams.
• Support reliability, security, and performance via monitoring, reviews, and mentoring.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Distributed systems

gRPC

Protocol Buffers

API design

English communication

Mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Job description

Role overview

Build and evolve the shared platform infrastructure that supports a suite of cloud products. You’ll work across services, libraries, build systems, and developer tooling, helping multiple engineering teams deliver software reliably. The position combines hands-on systems development with technical leadership, cross-team influence, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain platform infrastructure, build systems, and shared libraries across several programming languages.
• Own gRPC and Protocol Buffers definitions and language bindings for communication between services.
• Develop infrastructure libraries for messaging, caching, and data persistence, and operate services for organization management and tenant data lifecycle.
• Set architecture, technical standards, and engineering practices across teams; lead initiatives spanning multiple services.
• Improve developer experience through tooling, documentation, and self-service capabilities, partnering with product teams to identify platform needs.
• Support reliability, security, and performance through monitoring and operational practices; review code, ensure test coverage, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of server-side development experience, with strong Java and/or Kotlin expertise.
• Experience building and maintaining platform or infrastructure systems at scale, with a solid understanding of distributed systems, messaging, caching, and data consistency.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS services, alongside databases such as SQL, MongoDB, and DynamoDB.
• Experience with gRPC or Protocol Buffers and designing APIs used across languages; ability to work in languages such as Go, Python, and TypeScript.
• Track record of leading technical initiatives, influencing engineering direction, and mentoring developers across teams.
• Strong communication, computer science fundamentals, and ability to work autonomously; upper-intermediate spoken and written English.

Nice to have

• Experience with Jira Cloud or related platform integrations, CI/CD design, observability tools, or site reliability practices.
• Open-source or internal platform tool contributions, and familiarity with Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code tools.

Benefits and work setup

The position is remote-first and includes health, dental, and vision coverage, a savings plan, flexible paid time off in most locations, and support for learning and home-office expenses. The organization also describes opportunities for professional development, optional in-person meetups, and travel to international offices.