Staff Software Engineer — Observability at Scale

temporal; United States; Hybrid; USD 212,000 - 286,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

100% Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

Employer 401K Plan

Work from Home Meals Allowance

Professional Enrichment Budget

Job summary

Temporal is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for our Infrastructure Team with a focus on Observability. This role involves managing the software development lifecycle and leading feature design to enhance the developer experience across the Temporal ecosystem.

The ideal candidate will bring a user-first mindset, strong collaboration skills, and the ability to design high-performance distributed systems. Benefits include unlimited PTO, full medical coverage, and a supportive work environment.

Qualifications

• User-first mindset focused on empowering others through tooling.
• Motivated to create positive outcomes.
• Ability to work self-directed in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle.
• Design and build multi-component, distributed systems.
• Investigate issues methodically to identify root causes.
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation.

Skills

Development of distributed systems

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)

High-level programming languages (preferably Go)

Monitoring and instrumenting infrastructure

Tools

Clickhouse

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Job description

Temporal is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for our Infrastructure Team with a focus on Observability. This role involves managing the software development lifecycle and leading feature design to enhance the developer experience across the Temporal ecosystem.

The ideal candidate will bring a user-first mindset, strong collaboration skills, and the ability to design high-performance distributed systems. Benefits include unlimited PTO, full medical coverage, and a supportive work environment.