Software Engineer II, Developer Productivity

Who We Are   Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. Our amazing user community provides us with real-time feedback and contributions to improve the developer experience everywhere. Backed by top VC firms, we have built a team of professionals from various successful start-ups and well-known technology companies. Together, we collaborate cross-functionally, engage with and support our users to improve the developer experience, deliver world-class open-source software, and enhance our commercial SaaS platform. Temporal is growing and working towards building the best community. We are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for helping developer communities, open-source software, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!

Summary

We have an opening for a Software Design Engineer on our Developer Productivity Team focused on internal developer tools (development & operational), observability (both internal and customer-facing), and release engineering. This is an opportunity to join a mission-critical engineering team focused on 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 being a force multiplier across the organization.

What You'll Do

Build

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

Own

• Set a high bar for technical excellence and take pride in the software you develop.
• Investigate issues with a methodical approach to identify a root cause.
• Understand performance and reliability implications of basic design options at scale. Make related tradeoffs.
• Able to participate in on-call rotation.

Learn

• Working knowledge of architecture and services of assigned domain.
• Investigate and understand ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power our mission.
• Deeply understand the needs of Temporal developers and leverage that knowledge for product development and feature design.

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