Staff Software Engineer, Replication Foundations

Engg; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Replication Foundations team within Temporal’s Cloud Global Services (CGS) organization. You will shape the technical direction of Temporal’s OSS replication stack, spanning architecture, protocols, rollout, and operations.

You will mentor engineers, drive reliability and scalability initiatives across multi-cluster setups, and partner with product and cloud teams to align OSS with Temporal Cloud needs.

Qualifications

• Experience designing production distributed systems with high availability and reliability.
• Ability to define architecture, invariants, and trade-offs in evolving problems.
• Proficient in debugging complex production issues, including concurrency bugs.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for OSS replication stack from design to rollout.
• Lead design reviews and mentor engineers across teams.
• Collaborate with CGS, Product, and Cloud teams to align needs.
• Triage production incidents and drive follow-up improvements.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go programming

Concurrency

Performance optimization

System architecture

Communication

Mentoring

Tools

Go

C++

Java

Job description

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Replication Foundations team within Temporal’s Cloud Global Services (CGS) organization. You will shape the technical direction of Temporal’s OSS replication stack, spanning architecture, protocols, rollout, and operations.

You will mentor engineers, drive reliability and scalability initiatives across multi-cluster setups, and partner with product and cloud teams to align OSS with Temporal Cloud needs.