Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage

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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