Lead the design and implementation of core components of Temporal’s OSS replication stack, from initial design through rollout and long-term operational ownership.
Design and evolve replication protocols that power High Availability namespaces, Cross-cluster and cross-region replication, Migration between Temporal clusters (cloud ↔ self-hosted, cloud ↔ cloud).
Build scalability and reliability capabilities such as Multi-cell namespaces, Protocols enabling a single namespace to span multiple clusters, Dynamic split/merge strategies based on usage, hot spots, and capacity needs.
Reason deeply about correctness: consistency models, ordering guarantees, idempotency, failure recovery, and safe rollouts of protocol changes.
Drive cross-team alignment with Cloud Enablement and other CGS teams to ensure OSS foundations support current and future cloud products.
Author high-quality design docs that clarify invariants, trade-offs, failure modes, and operational playbooks for complex changes.
Raise engineering standards through reviews, mentorship, and technical leadership—improving correctness testing, fault injection, and incident readiness.
Participate in on-call/incident response related to replication and core system behavior, helping build durable fixes and prevention mechanisms.

Requirements

10+ years building production systems, including significant experience with distributed systems and correctness-critical infrastructure.
Strong experience with replication, consistency, fault tolerance, and failure recovery in distributed environments.
Demonstrated ability to design and implement concurrent, correctness-critical systems with clear invariants and safety guarantees.
Proven track record of leading complex technical projects across teams—setting direction, driving execution, and landing changes safely in production.
Hands-on experience debugging complex production issues involving race conditions, data consistency, partial failures, and performance degradation.
Proficiency writing production-quality concurrent code, preferably in Go (Java/C++ or similar systems languages also welcome).
Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals such as replication, sharding/partitioning, backpressure, failure detection, and durability mechanisms.
Ability to operate with high ownership and minimal oversight, balancing deep technical rigor with pragmatic delivery.
Curiosity and rigor in understanding how systems behave under stress, failure, and scale.

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

GoJavaC++distributed systemsreplicationfault tolerancefailure recoveryconcurrent programmingcorrectness modelsscalability

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentorshipcross-team alignmentproblem-solvingcommunicationcuriosityownershipexecutiondesign documentationincident response