Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Data Storage

Temporal Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company is seeking a Staff Engineer to design and maintain backend functionality for scalable services. You will develop distributed data systems, enhance reliability, and mentor engineers. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience with distributed systems and expertise in Go or Java. This role offers a competitive salary and participation in equity plans.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of concurrency and multi-threading.
• Experience in concurrent code writing in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed data systems.
• Drive reliability and performance, owning SLOs.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor mid-level engineers.

Skills

Distributed systems design

API development

Technical leadership

Reliability and performance optimization

Tools

AWS

Go

Java

Job description

Temporal is an open source programming model that simplifies code, makes applications more reliable, and helps developers focus on delivering features faster. Our user community provides real-time feedback and contributions to improve the developer experience.

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to design, build, and maintain significant portions of our backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services. You will own the custom persistence stack for Temporal Cloud, which includes a Write Ahead Log, various metadata stores, multi-level caches, and tiered storage.

What You'll Do

• Design and build distributed data systems, crafting APIs, schemas, and replication paths that keep petabytes of workflow history durable and query-able.
• Drive reliability and performance, owning SLOs, creating chaos-test plans, profiling hot paths, and leading incident reviews.
• Provide technical leadership, breaking down roadmap epics, mentoring mid-level engineers, and stewarding design docs through RFC.
• Collaborate with cross-team partners to land features end-to-end.

What You'll Bring

• 5 or more years of experience as an arranger and/or builder/enhancer of highly scalable distributed systems.
• Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts, including multi-threading and concurrency.
• Experience writing concurrent code in production with languages like Go or Java.
• Experience building and running services on AWS, with a bonus for Microsoft Azure and Google GCP experience.

Nice to Have

• Prior contributions to Temporal, Cadence, or other workflow engines.
• Deep expertise in a storage domain, such as LSM trees, columnar stores, transactional logs, etc.
• Operated multi-region, ≥99.99% uptime services.
• Experience working with Open Source Systems.
• Experience building K8s controllers and/or CRDs.

Compensation

• The estimated pay range for this role is $190,000 - $265,000, depending on locale.
• This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer and 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.