Senior Staff Engineer, Open Source Server
TemporalUnited States - Remote Opportunity · Remote · full time · Lead / Staff / Principal
$260,000 – $312,000
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What this role is
Temporal seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to lead technical work on their open-source distributed systems server, tackling problems across task matching, scheduling, workflow execution, and developer experience. This is a hands-on role for someone with deep systems expertise who can set direction, mentor engineers, and balance reliability, performance, and usability in a large codebase serving both open-source and enterprise customers.
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What they ask for
Required
- 12+ years building and operating production distributed systems
- Strong technical leadership experience including design work and project delivery
- Deep fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, scheduling, and performance
- Production experience with Go, Java, or similar backend language
- Experience with high-scale or performance-critical systems like task queues, scheduling, or workflow engines
- Strong operational focus on reliability, observability, and debugging
- Experience designing APIs and platform features for other developers
- Experience with open source systems or communities
Nice to have
- Cloud infrastructure experience on AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Familiarity with databases like Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL
- Experience with Kubernetes controllers, CRDs, KEDA, or Argo