Summary

We have an opening for a Software Engineer on our Developer Productivity Team focused on internal developer tools, observability (both internal and customer-facing), release engineering, and operational tooling & support. This is an opportunity to join a mission-critical engineering team focused on driving the productivity and reliability of Temporal’s developers andcore platforms, respectively. We are a passionate team of talented developers who truly care about our mission and enjoy being a force multiplier across the organization.

What You'll Do

Build

• Participate in the end-to-end Product Development Lifecycle: goals and requirements solicitation, design, implementation, operationalization/deployment, support and maintenance.
• Formulate feature designs, review with stakeholders, and iterate to incorporate feedback.
• Provide appropriate test coverage for unit, integration, and performance of your feature ownership area.
• Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and manage the software you develop.

Own

• Set a high bar for technical excellence and take pride in the software you develop.
• Investigate issues with a methodical approach to identify a root cause.
• Understand performance and reliability implications of basic design options at scale. Make related tradeoffs.
• Able to perform on-call duties.

Learn

• Working knowledge of the architecture and services of your assigned domain(s).
• Investigate and understand ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power our mission.
• Deeply understand the needs of Temporal developers and leverage that knowledge for product development and feature design.

Collaborate

• Participate in design reviews and contribute to design of other features.
• Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale.

What You'll Bring

• User-first mindset. You’re excited by the opportunity to empower others through tooling, and enjoy deeply internalizing their goals and use cases to build effective tools.
• Eagerness to automate whenever possible - constantly asking “is it worth the time?”.
• Experience developing internal tools, especially with a focus on developer productivity and release engineering.
• Strong opinions about tools and technology that are equally balanced by a pragmatic drive for impact.
• Ability to work in a self-directed manner in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Skills & Technologies

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience post graduation building and running services with one or more cloud providers, preferably AWS. Bonus: Microsoft Azure and Google GCP experience.
• Hands-on experience with Clickhouse or similar column-oriented DBMS is nice to have.
• Expert in one or more high-level programming languages, preferably Go.
• Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts, and concurrency or multithreading.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with web application development using modern frameworks.
• Strong command and understanding of Git.
• Basic understanding of common design patterns.
• Thorough understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking.
• Familiarity with best practices regarding monitoring, instrumenting, and configuring infrastructure.

Compensation

• The estimated pay range for this role is $145,000 - $180,000
• This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan