Senior Software Engineer, Temporal
Infrastructure Observability
$180-225k
+ Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
Open source microservice state management
Be an early applicant
Open source microservice state management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-225k
+ Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
201-500 employees
Company mission
To remove the complexity in developing reliable software for the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- User-first mindset. You’re excited by the opportunity to empower others through tooling, and enjoy deeply internalizing user goals and use cases to build effective solutions
- Motivated by impact. You are driven by a desire to make positive things happen
- Strong opinions about tools and technology that are equally balanced by a pragmatic drive for impact
- Ability to work in a self-directed manner in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to develop horizontally scalable, resilient, and high performance distributed systems in a production environment
- Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting large scale, geographically distributed observability and/or high throughput data streaming/processing pipelines, or similar
- Expert in one or more high-level programming languages, preferably Go
- Expert-level Kubernetes skills
- Expert-level query development skills, preferably SQL
- Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers, preferably AWS, or GCP
- Thorough understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking
- Familiarity with best practices regarding monitoring, instrumenting, and configuring infrastructure
- Core observability tech stack: Clickhouse, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos, Kubernetes, Temporal
- Our recent observability project had the biggest impact to Temporal margins of any engineering effort in company history while also unlocking unprecedented operator capabilities
- “Observability is the beating heart of our ability to deliver a mission critical service” -Preeti Somal, Senior VP of Engineering
What the job involves
- We have an opening for a Senior Software Engineer on our Infrastructure Team, with specific focus on Observability - both internal and customer-facing
- This is an opportunity to join a mission-critical engineering team that is driving the productivity and reliability of Temporal’s developers and core platforms, respectively
- We are a passionate team of talented developers who truly care about our mission and enjoy working deeply across the entire Temporal ecosystem to be a force multiplier across the organization
- Lead the end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle: goals & requirements solicitation, design & review, implementation, operationalization & deployment, support & maintenance
- Formulate feature designs, review with stakeholders, iterate to incorporate feedback and drive consensus
- Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and manage the software you develop
- Provide appropriate test and production readiness coverage for unit, integration, and performance of your feature ownership area
- Set a high bar for technical excellence and take pride in the software you develop
- Design and build multi-component, distributed systems that operate at scale
- Investigate issues with a methodical approach to identify a root cause
- Understand performance and reliability implications of design options at scale. Make related tradeoffs
- Able to participate in the team’s on-call rotation
- Expert-level knowledge of architecture and services of assigned domain. Strong command over all aspects of the Temporal ecosystem. This role provides a strong opportunity for diverse technical exposure!
- Investigate and understand ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power our mission
- Deeply understand the needs of Temporal internal developers and external customers, and leverage that knowledge for product development and feature design
- Participate in design reviews and contribute to design of other features
- Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale
Our take
The complexity of modern software systems puts a major strain on developers as it makes products difficult to plan, build and test. Cloud-native services simplify life for end-users, but app developers unfamiliar with the challenges of state management behind the construction of microservices. As the leading state management systems company, Temporal Technologies is an MIT licensed platform for unifying and managing application state.
The company offers an open source microservices orchestration platform, giving developers more time to code, while Temporal manages the scalability and reliability. The company’s technology is used to solve state management at an impressive list of cloud and tech companies, including Netflix, Doordash, Snap, and Google Cloud.
The company has achieved unicorn status with a valuation of over $1.5 billion following its early 2022 Series B. Temporal plans to use its latest Series "B-Prime" 2023 funding to continue growing its open-source community, and developing new features for its cloud offering.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
76% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2025
$144m
LATE VC
Jan 2024
$103m
LATE VC
Total funding: $706.3m
Company benefits
- Medical/Dental (including ortho)/Vision Benefits
- Unlimited Time-Off
- 401(k)
- AD&D, Long and Short- term disability
- Life Insurance
- HSA + Employer Contribution
- Employee Assistance Program
- Company Issued Hardware + $1,000 Annually Home Office Setup
- Remote-First
Company HQ
West Bellevue, Bellevue, WA
Leadership
Maxim Fateev
(CEO)Former Senior Staff Engineer at Uber. Previously worked as a Staff Software Engineer at Google, Principal SDE at Amazon Web Services, Principal RSDE at Microsoft, and was a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon .com.
Samar Abbas
(CTO)Former Staff Software Engineer at Uber. Previously worked at Microsoft as a Principal Software Engineer, and was a Software Design Engineer at Amazon.
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