{"id":1549648,"url":"https://alion.io/job/temporal-staff-software-engineer-open-source-server-2","title":"Staff Software Engineer, Open Source Server","company":{"id":4236,"name":"Temporal","domain":"temporal.io","url":"https://alion.io/company/temporal","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":70,"open_postings":7,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":73,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":["Seattle, United States","San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":169600,"max":278250,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":278250},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"ClickHouse","optional":false},{"name":"ElasticSearch","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2023-12-28T21:54:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2023-12-28","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T07:58:16Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1007,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":1007},"description":"We are currently hiring Staff Software Engineers across multiple back-end systems teams. The work you will do as a Staff Engineer is key to developing features without complicating Temporal, as the increasing complexity of our systems creates additional challenges. You will design, build, and maintain significant portions of our backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services. Examples of the key distributed systems aspects you can impact include (but not limited to) latency, scale, reliability, multi-region failover, and availability.\nWorking in a highly collaborative team, we’ll look to build a new enterprise offering that will involve both on-premise and dedicated cloud offerings.\nTo see more details about projects the OSS team is working on and demo videos, click here.\nWhat You'll Do\nDesign and implement core backend service features\n\nProvide appropriate test coverage for unit, integration, and performance for your feature ownership area\n\nClearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run service with those features\n\nProvide appropriate service level logs and metrics to make features operational for cloud service setup\n\nProvide appropriate alerts, dashboards, and runbooks for production\n\nWhat You'll Bring\nRich experience as an \"Arranger\" and/or \"Builder/Enhancer\" in large-scale distributed systems design (reliability, scalability). see HERE for more info re: \"Arranger\" and/or \"Builder/Enhancer\"\n\nOperational experience in large-scale distributed systems environments\n\nExperience developing highly concurrent systems\n\nDemonstrated experience writing concurrent code in production as Advanced or Expert levels. see HERE for more info re: Advanced or Expert levels\n\nKnowledge and experience of reliability so you can further ensure the high reliability of the Temporal system\n\nExperience with Elastic Search or Clickhouse\n\nIdeas and actions to improve the velocity of the team\n\nNice to Have\nFamiliarity with Go, other similar languages great too\n\nExperience with infrastructure environments (strong 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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