# Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage

Hiring organization: [Temporal](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/temporal)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/153eb76d-40cd-4df2-9f9c-ec995912fb68

Listed on Temporal's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Lead / Staff / Principal
- Location: United States - Remote Opportunity
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 212000 – 278250 USD per year

## Summary

This role designs and operates Temporal's distributed data storage system that persists petabytes of workflow history across cloud providers. It suits senior engineers experienced in building large-scale, multi-tenant backend systems who want to lead technical direction and mentor others while owning the full stack from APIs to observability.

_Our summary, not Temporal's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Go, Java, Kubernetes

## Required

- 5+ years building or arranging highly scalable distributed systems
- Solid distributed systems fundamentals including multi-threading and concurrency
- Production-level concurrent programming experience in Go, Java, or equivalent at intermediate-advanced-expert level
- Experience building and operating services on AWS

## Nice to have

- Prior contributions to Temporal, Cadence, or other workflow engines
- Deep expertise in storage domains like LSM trees, columnar stores, or transactional logs
- Operated multi-region services with 99.99%+ uptime
- Open source systems experience
- Experience building Kubernetes controllers or CRDs
- Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform experience

Apply on Temporal's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/temporaltechnologies/jobs/4672714007