Staff Software Engineer - Control Plane Core

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!

The Temporal Cloud Engineering group is looking for a Staff Software Engineer who has demonstrated a track record of developing horizontally scalable, resilient, and performing-under-load distributed systems in a production environment. Your primary focus will be on building and enhancing our reliability and scale Cloud Platform. This is a unique opportunity as you will gain experience with the Temporal open source server and our cloud services while building this framework.

What You’ll Do

• Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of our foundational platforms and systems, working closely with stakeholders and internal customers to understand and refine requirements.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features.
• Proactively identifying opportunities for, and driving improvements to, current programming practices, including process enhancements and tool upgrades.
• Provide appropriate alerts, dashboards, and runbooks for production.

What You Bring to Us

• 8+ years of experience developing a globally distributed cloud services platform
• 6+ years of coding experience (Go, Java/Scala, Python, or other applicable languages)
• Experience developing and operating large-scale databases, as well as demonstrated knowledge of technologies such as Postgres, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, SQL, etc.
• Strong communication skills and a desire to make an impact and thrive in small, collaborative, energetic teams
• Capable of operating from conception through the continuous operation of 24x7 services. Ideally, you have experience in a production DevOps environment

What is Good to Have

• Hands-on experience with cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services, Google …