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Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage
Data Engineer
• On-site
• Full-time
• 📍 United States
The Cloud Data Store (CDS) team owns the storage, retrieval, and lifecycle of all Temporal Cloud workflow data at planet scale. As a Staff Engineer, you'll design, build, and maintain significant portions of the backend for highly scalable, multi-tenant services, including the custom persistence stack for Temporal Cloud (Write Ahead Log, Cassandra, etcd, multi-level caches, tiered storage).
Responsibilities
- ▹Design & build distributed data systems – craft APIs, schemas, and replication paths that keep petabytes of workflow history durable and query-able
- ▹Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run the service
- ▹Drive reliability & performance – own SLOs, create chaos-test plans, profile hot paths, and lead incident reviews
- ▹Technical leadership – break down roadmap epics, mentor mid-level engineers, steward design docs through RFC
- ▹Cross-team collaboration – partner with the Server, Cloud, and DX teams to land features end-to-end
Requirements
- ▹5+ years of experience 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 or Java (or similar) at a "high end of Intermediate", "Advanced" or "Expert" level
- ▹Experience building and running services on AWS
- ▹Experience with Elastic Search and/or Clickhouse
Nice to have
- ▹Prior contributions to Temporal, Cadence, or other workflow engines
- ▹Deep expertise in a storage domain (LSM trees, columnar stores, transactional logs, etc.)
- ▹Operated multi-region, ≥99.99% uptime services
- ▹Experience working with open source systems
- ▹Experience building K8s controllers and/or CRDs
- ▹Bonus: Microsoft Azure and Google GCP experience
What we offer
- ▹Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
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