Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Server

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design, implement, and ship features for the Temporal server
• ▹Solve distributed systems challenges across task matching, scheduling, workflow execution, visibility, quotas, throttling, persistence, developer primitives, and workflow lifecycle features
• ▹Make thoughtful engineering tradeoffs across developer experience, performance, and operability requirements
• ▹Partner with engineers, product managers, cloud teams, and customer-facing teams to build scalable technical solutions
• ▹Improve the reliability and operability of the server through testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation
• ▹Participate in design discussions and code reviews to help maintain a high-quality codebase
• ▹Contribute to improving the developer experience for open source users and enterprise customers
• ▹Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge with teammates

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of experience building and operating production distributed systems
• ▹Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, scheduling, and performance
• ▹Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts including multi-threading and concurrency
• ▹Experience writing concurrent code in production with languages like Go or Java (or similar) at a "high end of Intermediate", "Advanced" or "Expert" level
• ▹Experience building high-scale or performance-sensitive backend services (request-serving systems, task queues, scheduling systems, streaming or replication pipelines, rate limiting, sharding, load balancing, workflow engines, or orchestration systems)
• ▹Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and operational skills with a focus on reliability and observability
• ▹Experience designing and building backend APIs or platform services
• ▹Ability to work collaboratively across engineering teams and contribute to technical discussions

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with open source software or communities
• ▹Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP
• ▹Experience with technologies such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL
• ▹Experience with Kubernetes, CRDs, KEDA, or Argo

Soft skills