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Senior Software Engineer, Observability

Temporal

United States OR Canada - Remote Opportunity · Remote · full time · Senior

$176,000 – $230,000

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What this role is

Senior software engineer role focused on building and maintaining observability systems for Temporal's infrastructure and customer-facing platforms. This position suits experienced engineers who enjoy working on distributed systems at scale and want to directly influence developer productivity through reliable tooling.

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What they ask for

Required

  • Build horizontally scalable and resilient distributed systems in production
  • Design and implement large-scale observability or data streaming pipelines
  • Expert proficiency in at least one high-level programming language
  • Expert-level Kubernetes skills
  • Expert-level SQL query development
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP)
  • Understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking
  • Knowledge of infrastructure monitoring and instrumentation best practices

Nice to have

  • Go as your primary programming language
  • AWS or GCP cloud experience
  • Familiarity with Clickhouse, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or Thanos

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