Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage

5 or more years of experience as an "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer" of highly scalable distributed systems.

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Experience building and running services on AWS.

Bonus: Microsoft Azure and Google GCP experience.

Experience with Elastic Search and/or Clickhouse

Deep expertise in a storage domain (LSM trees, columnar stores, transactional logs, etc.).

Additionally, 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.

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)

Design & build distributed data systems

– craft APIs, schemas, and replication paths that keep petabytes of workflow history durable and query-able.

Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run service with those features.

– own SLOs, create chaos-test plans, profile hot paths, and lead incident reviews.

Technical leadership

– break down roadmap epics, mentor mid-level engineers, steward design docs through RFC.

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. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.

Our values guide us —they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We’re curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.

Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!

Summary

Cloud Data Store (CDS) owns the storage, retrieval, and lifecycle of all workflow data at planet scale. We design the persistence APIs, build storage abstractions that run across cloud vendors, and deliver the observability that lets customers trust their state machines for years.

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