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We design the persistence APIs, build storage abstractions that run across cloud vendors, and deliver the observability that lets customers trust their state machines for years. [To see more detail re: the Temporal CDS Eng team,click here]\nAs a Staff Engineer, you will get the chance to design, build, and maintain significant portions of our backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services. You’ll own the custom persistence stack for Temporal Cloud which includes a Write Ahead Log, various metadata stores (Cassandra, etcd), multi-level caches, tiered storage etc.\nWhat You'll Do\nDesign & build distributed data systems - craft APIs, schemas, and replication paths that keep petabytes of workflow history durable and query-able. Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run service with those features.\n\nDrive reliability & performance - own SLOs, create chaos-test plans, profile hot paths, and lead incident reviews.\n\nTechnical leadership - break down roadmap epics, mentor mid-level engineers, steward design docs through RFC.\n\nCross-team collaboration - partner with the Server, Cloud, and DX teams to land features end-to-end.\n\nWhat You'll Bring\n5 or more years of experience as an \"Arranger\" and/or \"Builder/Enhancer\" of highly scalable distributed systems.see HERE for more info re: \"Arranger\" and/or \"Builder/Enhancer\"\n\nSolid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts including multi-threading and concurrency.\n\nExperience writing concurrent code in production with languages like Go or Java or other applicable languages with skill level as \"high end of Intermediate\" and/or \"Advanced\" or \"Expert\" levels.see HERE for more info re: \"high end of Intermediate\" and/or \"Advanced\" or \"Expert levels\"\n\nExperience building and running services on AWS. Bonus: Microsoft Azure and Google GCP experience.\n\nExperience with Elastic Search and/or Clickhouse\n\nNice to Have\nPrior contributions to Temporal, Cadence, or other workflow engines.\n\nDeep expertise in a storage domain (LSM trees, columnar stores, transactional logs, etc.).\n\nOperated multi-region, ≥99.99 % uptime services.\n\nExperience working with Open Source Systems.\n\nExperience in building K8s controllers and/or CRDs is a plus\n\nTemporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.\nTemporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. 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