Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage
TemporalUnited States - Remote Opportunity · Remote · full time · Lead / Staff / Principal
$212,000 – $278,250
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What this role is
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.
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What they ask for
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