- Locations
- Remote
- United States
- Last Published
- Feb. 7, 2025
- Sector
- Open Source
- Function
- Software Engineering
Summary
We have an opening for a Software Engineer on our Developer Productivity Team focused on internal developer tools, observability (both internal and customer-facing), release engineering, and operational tooling & support. This is an opportunity to join a mission-critical engineering team focused on 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 being a force multiplier across the organization.
What You'll Do
Build
- Participate in the end-to-end Product Development Lifecycle: goals and requirements solicitation, design, implementation, operationalization/deployment, support and maintenance.
- Formulate feature designs, review with stakeholders, and iterate to incorporate feedback.
- Provide appropriate test coverage for unit, integration, and performance of your feature ownership area.
- Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and manage the software you develop.
Own
- Set a high bar for technical excellence and take pride in the software you develop.
- Investigate issues with a methodical approach to identify a root cause.
- Understand performance and reliability implications of basic design options at scale. Make related tradeoffs.
- Able to perform on-call duties.
Learn
- Working knowledge of the architecture and services of your assigned domain(s).
- Investigate and understand ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power our mission.
- Deeply understand the needs of Temporal developers and leverage that knowledge for product development and feature design.
Collaborate
- Participate in design reviews and contribute to design of other features.
- Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale.
What You'll Bring
- User-first mindset. You’re excited by the opportunity to empower others through tooling, and enjoy deeply internalizing their goals and use cases to build effective tools.
- Eagerness to automate whenever possible - constantly asking “is it worth the time?”.
- Experience developing internal tools, especially with a focus on developer productivity and release engineering.
- 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.
Skills & Technologies
- 3-5 years of hands-on experience post graduation building and running services with one or more cloud providers, preferably AWS. Bonus: Microsoft Azure and Google GCP experience.
- Hands-on experience with Clickhouse or similar column-oriented DBMS is nice to have.
- Expert in one or more high-level programming languages, preferably Go.
- Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts, and concurrency or multithreading.
- Experience with Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with web application development using modern frameworks.
- Strong command and understanding of Git.
- Basic understanding of common design patterns.
- Thorough understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking.
- Familiarity with best practices regarding monitoring, instrumenting, and configuring infrastructure.
- BS in CS preferred or equivalent applicable experience
Compensation
- The estimated pay range for this role is $145,000 - $175,000
- This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
- 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!
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
- $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
- $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
- $500 / Year Professional Memberships
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness