Senior Staff Engineer, Open Source Server

Temporal Technologies

Senior Staff Engineer leading the Open Source Server team at Temporal Technologies. Focusing on core distributed systems, mentoring engineers, and enhancing developer experience.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $260,000 - $325,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCassandraCloudDistributed SystemsElasticSearchGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesMySQLOpen SourcePostgres

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the design and implementation of important server features, from proposal through rollout.
Help set technical direction for one or more areas of the OSS Server team.
Work on distributed systems problems across areas such as task matching, scheduling, workflow execution, visibility, quotas, throttling, persistence, developer primitives, and workflow lifecycle features.
Make practical tradeoffs across reliability, performance, operability, product needs, and open source usability.
Partner with engineers, product managers, cloud teams, and customer-facing teams to turn hard problems into clear technical plans.
Improve how we build and run the server through better testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation.
Review designs and code, mentor engineers, and help the team make good technical decisions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years of experience building and operating production distributed systems.
Strong technical leadership experience, including leading design work, aligning engineers, and driving complex projects to completion.
Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, scheduling, and performance.
Production experience with Go, Java, or a similar backend language.
Experience with high-scale or performance-critical systems, such as request serving paths, task queues, scheduling systems, streaming or replication pipelines, rate limiting, sharding, load balancing, workflow engines, or orchestration systems.
Good operational instincts. You care about reliability, observability, debugging, incident response, and making systems easier to run.
Experience designing APIs, primitives, or platform features that other developers use.
Experience working with open source systems or communities.
Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure or GCP experience is a plus.
Experience with systems such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL is a plus.
Experience with Kubernetes controllers, CRDs, KEDA, or Argo is a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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!

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Hard Skills & Tools

distributed systemsconcurrencyfault toleranceschedulingGoJavaAPI designKubernetesElasticsearchPostgreSQL

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingoperational instinctscommunicationdecision makingproject managementtradeoff analysisdocumentation