Senior Software Engineer, Nexus SDK

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Responsibilities

• ▹Take end-to-end ownership of new features, working with the Nexus and OSS teams to deliver exceptional reliability and developer experience
• ▹Design and build Nexus interfaces for the Temporal SDKs used by customers in their programming language of choice
• ▹Tightly integrate Temporal SDKs with their respective languages, making best use of type systems and language runtimes, to execute application code in a durable, deterministic way
• ▹Develop features that provide a foundation for the reliable execution of agentic AI systems
• ▹Work directly with the community to debug issues needing expert attention, and gather feedback on Temporal SDK features and APIs
• ▹Write publicly-readable technical documentation describing Temporal concepts and APIs
• ▹Travel to meet coworkers once or twice a year

Requirements

• ▹At least 7 years of experience in a production environment as an "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer" of highly scalable distributed systems
• ▹Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts including multi-threading and concurrency
• ▹Experience writing concurrent code in production with languages like Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, .NET, or similar, at a "high end of Intermediate", "Advanced" or "Expert" level
• ▹Experience designing APIs, SDK libraries, or working with open source systems
• ▹Strong polyglot with deep domain expertise in at least 2 of: Python, TypeScript, .NET, Ruby, and Rust

What we offer

• ▹Fully-remote company — no requirement to work from an office
• ▹No 24/7 on-call pager duty
• ▹Most work is open source — PRs and comments are open to the public
• ▹Mostly written communication, with meetings kept to status updates and thorny issues