Senior Staff Engineer, System Reliability

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

We have an opening for a Senior Staff Engineer, System Reliability in our Engineering organization that reports to our Engineering SVP. Temporal is the foundation for mission-critical systems and as our cloud offering grows, ensuring high reliability is our top priority. The work you will do ensures that Temporal continues to deliver with a high level of reliability for our current users and customers as we scale rapidly. This is an opportunity to be a critical contributor to our company's highest priority during a period of scaling globally. This role has ownership of end-to-end system reliability and requires close collaboration across all components of our Cloud offering.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end system reliability for Temporal Collaborate with executives and engineering leaders to drive alignment of engineering roadmaps related to reliability
• Identify areas of enhancements in architecture & design related to reliability, and work closely with senior engineers in these teams to bring continued focus on reliability
• Bring best practices and build upon our strong foundation, use a “lift all boats” mentality
• Embed yourself within each Engineering team and learn how each team works relative to reliability. You may even adjust some code:)

What you bring to Temporal

• Rich experience in large-scale, highly concurrent distributed systems (reliability, scalability, operations)
• Cloud infrastructure systems knowledge and experience that will help further ensure the high reliability of the Temporal system
• Experience operating in a mission-critical, highly reliable services relied upon by others
• 10+ years of strong hands-on technical software development experience
• Influential collaboration skills & demonstrated ability to work across multiple teams and among all levels of the stack
• Healthy combination of pragmatic and medium-to-long term vision regarding system reliability
• An action oriented yet thoughtful approach so you can work alongside, mentor, and empower engineers within our teams
• Strong communication skills and ability to strengthen our culture of reliability
• Computer Science Degree minimum or equivalent

Compensation

• The estimated pay range for this role is $210,000 - $290,000.
• 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.   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)
• Empower 401K Plan
• Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!

International Benefits

• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com.  Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.

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