Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Who We Are   Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. Our amazing user community provides us with real-time feedback and contributions to improve the developer experience everywhere.   Backed by top VC firms, we have built a team of professionals from various successful start-ups and well-known technology companies. Together, we collaborate cross-functionally, engage with and support our users to improve the developer experience, deliver world-class open-source software, and enhance our commercial SaaS platform.   Temporal is growing and working towards building the best community. We are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for helping developer communities, open-source software, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!

Summary

The Temporal Cloud Platform group is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who has demonstrated a track record of developing horizontally scalable, resilient, and performing-under-load distributed systems in a production environment. Your primary focus will be on building and enhancing our reliability and scale Cloud Platform for our customers. This is a unique opportunity as you will gain experience with the Temporal open source server and our cloud services while building this framework. [This is not an internal deployment role]

What You’ll Do

• Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of our Cloud Operational API, SDK, Terraform & CLI services and systems.
• Build a great customer experience for Temporal Cloud developers using our infrastructure.
• Develop and execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps, make effective technical trade-offs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
• Proactively identifying opportunities for and driving improvements to current programming practices, including process enhancements and tool upgrades.
• Provide appropriate alerts, dashboards, and runbooks for production.

What You Bring to Us

 

• 4+ years of experience as an "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer" of highly scalable distributed systems. see HERE for more info re: "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer"
• 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 other applicable languages with skill level as "high end of Intermediate" and/or "Advanced" or "Expert" levels. see HERE for more info re: "high end of Intermediate" and/or "Advanced" or "Expert levels"
• Experience building Cloud Control Planes.
• Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome.
• Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial.
• Strong communication skills and a desire to make an impact and thrive in small, collaborative, energetic teams.
• Capable of operating from conception through the continuous operation of 24x7 services. Ideally, you have experience in a production environment.

What is Good to Have

• Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems.
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production.

Compensation

• The estimated pay range for this role is $150,000 - $210,000, depending on qualifications and location.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

  Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.   Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded.    U.S. Benefits 

• Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
• 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
• AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)