Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Server

Temporal Technologies

Senior Software Engineer joining the Open Source Server team at Temporal Technologies. Collaborating on distributed systems and improving developer experience for open-source software.

Posted 7/15/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $176,000 - $237,600 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and operating production distributed systems, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and observability. Proficient in designing backend APIs and scalable technical solutions while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating across teams.

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Distributed Systems ExpertiseConcurrent Code DevelopmentBackend API DesignReliability and ObservabilityCloud Platform Experience

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Hard Skills

Distributed SystemsConcurrencyFault TolerancePerformance OptimizationBackend Services DevelopmentDebuggingTroubleshootingAPI DesignHigh-Scale SystemsTask Scheduling

Soft Skills

CollaborationMentoringTechnical Communication

Tools & Technologies

GoJavaAWSAzureGCPElasticsearchOpenSearchClickHouseCassandraKubernetes

Industry Keywords

ObservabilityScalabilityOpen Source SoftwareWorkflow EnginesOrchestration Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCassandraCloudDistributed SystemsElasticSearchGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesMySQLOpen SourcePostgres

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, implement, and ship features for the Temporal server.
Solve distributed systems challenges across areas such as task matching, scheduling, workflow execution, visibility, quotas, throttling, persistence, developer primitives, and workflow lifecycle features.
Make thoughtful engineering tradeoffs across developer experience, performance, and operability requirements.
Partner with engineers, product managers, cloud teams, and customer-facing teams to build scalable technical solutions.
Improve the reliability and operability of the server through testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation.
Participate in design discussions and code reviews to help maintain a high-quality codebase.
Contribute to improving the developer experience for both open source users and enterprise customers.
Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge with teammates.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience building and operating production distributed systems.
Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, scheduling, and performance.
Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts including multi-threading and concurrency.
Experience writing concurrent code in production with languages like Go or Java or other applicable languages with skill level as "high end of Intermediate" and/or "Advanced" or "Expert" levels.
Experience building high-scale or performance-sensitive backend services, such as request-serving systems, task queues, scheduling systems, streaming or replication pipelines, rate limiting, sharding, load balancing, workflow engines, or orchestration systems.
Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and operational skills with a focus on reliability and observability.
Experience designing and building backend APIs or platform services.
Ability to work collaboratively across engineering teams and contribute to technical discussions.
Experience with open source software or communities is a plus.
Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP is a plus.
Experience with technologies such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL is a plus.
Experience with Kubernetes, 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!