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Temporal Technologies

Senior Software Engineer, Developer Productivity & Observability

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2 Locations
Senior level
Remote
2 Locations
Senior level
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the full software development lifecycle focused on observability. Responsibilities include feature design, implementation, and support, working on distributed systems, and collaborating with stakeholders to drive consensus and technical excellence.
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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 Software Engineer on our Developer Productivity Team. The team’s scope includes observability (both internal and customer-facing), internal developer tools, and release engineering, and this role would be primarily focused on observability. This is an opportunity to join a mission-critical engineering team that is driving the productivity and reliability of Temporal’s developers and core platforms, respectively. We are a passionate team of talented developers who truly care about our mission and enjoy working deeply across the entire Temporal ecosystem to be a force multiplier across the organization.

What You'll Do

Build

  • Lead the end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle: goals & requirements solicitation, design & review, implementation, operationalization & deployment, support & maintenance.
  • Formulate feature designs, review with stakeholders, iterate to incorporate feedback and drive consensus.
  • Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and manage the software you develop.
  • Provide appropriate test and production readiness coverage for unit, integration, and performance of your feature ownership area.

Own

  • Set a high bar for technical excellence and take pride in the software you develop.
  • Design and build multi-component, distributed systems that operate at scale.
  • Investigate issues with a methodical approach to identify a root cause.
  • Understand performance and reliability implications of design options at scale. Make related tradeoffs.
  • Able to participate in the team’s on-call rotation.

Learn

  • Expert-level knowledge of architecture and services of assigned domain. Strong command over all aspects of the Temporal ecosystem. This role provides a strong opportunity for diverse technical exposure!
  • Investigate and understand ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power our mission.
  • Deeply understand the needs of Temporal internal developers and external customers, and leverage that knowledge for product development and feature design.

Collaborate

  • Participate in design reviews and contribute to design of other features.
  • Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale.


What You'll Bring

  • User-first mindset. You’re excited by the opportunity to empower others through tooling, and enjoy deeply internalizing user goals and use cases to build effective solutions.
  • Motivated by impact. You are driven by a desire to make positive things happen.
  • Strong opinions about tools and technology that are equally balanced by a pragmatic drive for impact.
  • Ability to work in a self-directed manner in a fast-paced environment.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Skills & Technologies

  • Demonstrated ability to develop horizontally scalable, resilient, and high performance distributed systems in a production environment.
  • Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting large scale, geographically distributed observability and/or high throughput data streaming/processing pipelines, or similar.
  • Expert in one or more high-level programming languages, preferably Go.
  • Expert-level Kubernetes skills.
  • Expert-level query development skills, preferably SQL.
  • Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers, preferably AWS, or GCP.
  • Thorough understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking.
  • Familiarity with best practices regarding monitoring, instrumenting, and configuring infrastructure.

Compensation

  • The estimated pay range for this role is $150,000 - $210,000, depending on qualifications and location.
  • 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)
  • 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.

Additional Perks 

  • $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals 
  • $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
  • $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
  • $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
  • $500 / Year Professional Memberships
  • $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
  • Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness

Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.

 

Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.

 

We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.

Temporal Technologies Bellevue, Washington, USA Office

Bellevue, Washington, United States

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