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Staff Software Engineer, Observability

Temporal

United States - Remote Opportunity · Remote · full time · Lead / Staff / Principal

$212,000 – $280,000

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What this role is

This role leads observability infrastructure at Temporal, designing and operating large-scale monitoring and data pipelines that power both internal developer experience and customer-facing reliability. You'll architect distributed systems, mentor engineers, and drive technical direction on a team whose work has measurably improved the company's core business metrics.

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What they ask for

Required

  • Design and build horizontally scalable, resilient, high-performance distributed systems in production
  • Design, implement, deploy, and support large-scale geographically distributed observability or data streaming pipelines
  • Expert proficiency in one or more high-level programming languages, preferably Go
  • Expert-level Kubernetes skills
  • Expert-level SQL query development
  • Hands-on cloud provider experience, preferably AWS or GCP
  • Deep understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with monitoring, instrumentation, and infrastructure configuration best practices

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