Senior Software Engineer, Temporal Technologies
Open Source Server
$176-237.6k
+ Equity
Durable execution solutions
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Durable execution solutions
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$176-237.6k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make code fault tolerant, durable and simple.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- You enjoy solving challenging distributed systems problems while keeping the developer experience in mind
- You like learning large codebases and making meaningful technical contributions over time
- You take ownership of your work and collaborate well with teammates
- You enjoy balancing technical depth with practical engineering decisions
- You don't need prior Temporal experience, but you're excited to work on the core of a distributed system used by a large open source community and enterprise customers
What the job involves
- Temporal is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Open Source Server team
- This team builds and maintains the core Temporal server. Its scope is broad, including Matching, Applications, Foundations, task processing, quotas and throttling, visibility, developer-facing primitives such as standalone activities, schedules, and streaming, and workflow experience improvements such as Continue-As-New, pause, and reset
- We do not expect one person to cover all of these areas. We're looking for an engineer who is excited to learn the system, contribute across the codebase, and help improve the reliability, performance, operability, and developer experience of Temporal
- This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll collaborate with experienced engineers to design, build, and operate the core of Temporal's distributed systems platform
- 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
Our take
The growing complexity of modern software systems places a strain on developers, making applications harder to plan, build, and test. While cloud-native services simplify experiences for end users, they introduce new challenges for developers, like around managing state in distributed, microservices-based architectures. Temporal Technologies addresses this problem with an MIT-licensed platform that identifies and manages applications tate, so developers can built reliable, scalable systems with more confidence.
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 in 2022 and now has a valuation of over $2.5B. Its most recent funding came in at $146M and with this, Temporal plans to move into the next chapter in its space: AI, as well as focusing on R&D, putting it in a good position within the evolving market.
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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
- Remote-First Workforce: We embrace a remote-first culture with flexible schedules, allowing you to balance work and life on your terms. Work from your home office or one of 150+ WeWork locations worldwide. If there’s no WeWork near you, we cover alternative co-working spaces. Plus, our Travel to Coworking stipend supports your commute with coverage for public transport, ride-sharing, or parking expenses.
- Flexible Time Off: Employee wellness is key to our success. We encourage you to take the time you need to maintain balance and stay refreshed — whether it's for recovery, vacation, or personal time. In addition to unlimited flexible time off, we offer 12 paid holidays and 2 floating holidays (US).
- Medical, Dental & Vision: We provide comprehensive healthcare benefits from day one, covering 100% of premiums for you and your family. You can choose between a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) or a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) plan, with dental (including orthodontics) and full vision coverage. Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are available, with employer contributions to HSA plans.
- 401(k) Retirement Plan: Planning for your future is important, and our 401(k) plan helps you build a secure financial foundation. With a range of investment options and the flexibility to contribute pre-tax or after-tax income, we make saving simple.
- Disability & Life Insurance Coverage: Our disability and life insurance ensure financial security for you and your loved ones during life’s uncertainties, from illness to injury or unexpected loss. Coverage begins on day one, with 100% of premiums covered for peace of mind.
- Paid Parental Leave: We support your family at every stage. Birth parents receive up to 20 weeks of fully paid leave, and non-birth parents up to 12 weeks. We also offer comprehensive support throughout your fertility planning journey.
- Remote Office Perks: While we provide you with the basics, enjoy a home office stipend to build up your workspace ($1,000/year), an internet stipend to ensure connectivity ($74/month), and reimbursements for work-from-home meals ($300/month).
- Health & Wellness Perks: Take advantage of a lifestyle spending account ($1,200/year), free access to the Calm app, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) offering personalized support, therapy, and other resources.
- Learning & Development Perks: Invest in your growth with a learning and development stipend ($1,500/year) for courses and certifications, and a professional membership stipend ($500/year) to deepen your industry involvement.
Company HQ
West Bellevue, Bellevue, WA
Leadership
Maxim Fateev
(Co-Founder & CTO)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
(Co-Founder & CEO)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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