Senior Staff Engineer, Open Source Server

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Responsibilities

• ▹Lead the design and implementation of important server features, from proposal through rollout
• ▹Help set technical direction for one or more areas of the OSS Server team
• ▹Work on distributed systems problems across task matching, scheduling, workflow execution, visibility, quotas, throttling, persistence, developer primitives, and workflow lifecycle features
• ▹Make practical tradeoffs across reliability, performance, operability, product needs, and open source usability
• ▹Partner with engineers, product managers, cloud teams, and customer-facing teams to turn hard problems into clear technical plans
• ▹Improve how the team builds and runs the server through better testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation
• ▹Review designs and code, mentor engineers, and help the team make good technical decisions

Requirements

• ▹12+ years of experience building and operating production distributed systems
• ▹Strong technical leadership experience, including leading design work, aligning engineers, and driving complex projects to completion
• ▹Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, scheduling, and performance
• ▹Production experience with Go, Java, or a similar backend language
• ▹Experience with high-scale or performance-critical systems (request serving paths, task queues, scheduling systems, streaming or replication pipelines, rate limiting, sharding, load balancing, workflow engines, orchestration systems)
• ▹Good operational instincts: care about reliability, observability, debugging, incident response, and making systems easier to run
• ▹Experience designing APIs, primitives, or platform features that other developers use
• ▹Experience working with open source systems or communities

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure or GCP
• ▹Experience with systems such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL
• ▹Experience with Kubernetes controllers, CRDs, KEDA, or Argo

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan