Design and implement backend features that apply and extend the Temporal OSS replication stack to new Temporal Cloud capabilities
Contribute to Temporal Cloud High Availability features, including:
Namespace replication within and across regions and cloud providers
Monitoring replication health and lag
Supporting manual and automated failover workflows
Build and improve namespace migration systems, including:
Migration of namespaces and workloads between self-hosted Temporal clusters and Temporal Cloud
Migration between Temporal Cloud environments or regions
Tooling that supports safe cutover, validation, and rollback
Own medium-to-large features end-to-end, from design through production rollout and long-term maintenance
Write clear design documentation describing system behavior, tradeoffs, and failure modes
Ensure features are production-ready by delivering:
Service-level logs, metrics, and tracing
Alerts, dashboards, and operational runbooks
Participate in operational ownership, including on-call rotations, incident response, and postmortems
Collaborate with teammates to continuously improve reliability, operability, and development velocity

Requirements

Strong experience designing and building distributed backend systems with a focus on reliability and scalability
Hands-on experience operating production systems, including debugging failures and improving observability
Experience developing highly concurrent systems
Demonstrated ability to write concurrent production code, preferably in Go (Java or similar languages also welcome)
Solid understanding of failure modes, replication, and resiliency patterns in distributed systems
Ability to independently drive work from problem definition to delivery, while collaborating closely with peers and stakeholders
A mindset focused on building systems that are safe to operate, easy to reason about, and resilient to change

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!

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend developmentdistributed systemsconcurrent programmingGoJavareplicationobservabilityscalabilityreliabilityresiliency patterns

Soft Skills

problem-solvingcollaborationindependent workcommunicationdocumentationoperational ownershipincident responsecontinuous improvementattention to detailadaptability