Staff Software Engineer, Nexus SDK

Job Summary

As a Staff Software Engineer, Nexus SDK, you will build and evolve the Nexus interfaces for the Temporal SDKs,the primary way developers interact with Temporal. Nexus is Temporal’s durable execution framework for orchestrating work across team and application boundaries,providing improved modularity, security, debuggability, and fault isolation.

Key Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of new features, working with others in the Nexus and OSS teams to deliver exceptional reliability and a great developer experience.
• Design and build Nexus interfaces for the Temporal SDKs used by customers to work with Temporal in their programming language of choice.
• Tightly integrate Temporal SDKs with their respective languages, making best use of type systems and language runtimes, to execute application code in a durable, deterministic way.
• Develop features that provide a foundation for the reliable execution of the current wave of agentic AI systems.
• Work directly with our community to debug issues that need expert attention, and get feedback on Temporal SDK features and APIs.
• Write publicly-readable technical documentation describing Temporal concepts and APIs.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in a production environment as an "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer" of highly scalable distributed systems.
• Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts including multi-threading and concurrency.
• Experience writing concurrent code in production with languages like Go, Java, Python, Typescript, .NET or other applicable languages with skill level as "high end of Intermediate" and/or "Advanced" or "Expert" levels.
• Experience designing APIs, SDK libraries or working with Open Source Systems.

Benefits

• The estimated pay range for this role is $176,000 - $237,000 depending on experience and location.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
• Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
• 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
• AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
• Empower 401K Plan
• Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!