# Staff Software Engineer, DevProd (Infrastructure Observability)

**Company**: Temporal Technologies
**Location**: United States - Remote Opportunity
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $212,000 - $286,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

### Job Summary

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure Team with a focus on Observability, both internal and customer-facing. As part of this mission-critical engineering team, you will drive the productivity and reliability of Temporal's developers and core platforms.

### Responsibilities

- Lead the end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle, including goal and requirement solicitation, design and review, implementation, operationalization and deployment, support and maintenance.

- Lead feature design, review with stakeholders, iterate to incorporate feedback, and drive consensus.

- Document design choices and operational knowledge for successful deployment and management of developed software.

- Ensure appropriate test and production readiness coverage for unit, integration, and performance of your feature ownership area.

- Set a high bar for technical excellence and take pride in the software you develop.

- Design and build multi-component, distributed systems that operate at scale.

- Investigate issues methodically to identify root causes.

- Understand performance and reliability implications of design options at scale and make related trade-offs.

- Participate in the team's on-call rotation.

- Develop expert-level knowledge of architecture and services of assigned domain and strong command over all aspects of the Temporal ecosystem.

- Investigate and understand ways to leverage Temporal's own software to power the mission.

- Deeply understand the needs of Temporal internal developers and external customers, and leverage that knowledge for product development and feature design.

- Lead and mentor fellow team members.

- Participate in design reviews and contribute to the design of other features.

- Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale.

### Requirements

- User-first mindset with excitement about empowering others through tooling.

- Motivated by impact and driven by a desire to make positive things happen.

- Strong opinions about tools and technology 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.

- Demonstrated ability to develop horizontally scalable, resilient, and high-performance distributed systems in a production environment.

- Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting large-scale observability and/or high-throughput data streaming/processing pipelines.

- Expertise in one or more high-level programming languages, preferably Go.

- Expert-level Kubernetes skills.

- Expert-level query development skills, preferably SQL.

- Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers, preferably AWS or GCP.

- Thorough understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking.

- Familiarity with best practices regarding monitoring, instrumenting, and configuring infrastructure.

### Benefits

- Estimated pay range: $212,000 - $286,200 depending on qualifications and location.

- Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

- U.S. Benefits include unlimited PTO, 12 holidays + 2 floating holidays, 100% premiums coverage for medical, dental, and vision, AD&D, LT & ST disability, life insurance, Empower 401K plan, and additional perks.

- International benefits vary by country.

### Additional Perks

- $3,600/year work-from-home meals.

- $1,800/year professional enrichment.

- $1,200/year lifestyle spending account.

- $1,000/year in-home office setup.

- $74/month reimbursement for internet.

- Calm app subscription for mental health and wellness.

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- Go
- Kubernetes
- SQL
- cloud providers
- computer architecture
- operating systems
- networking
- observability
- data streaming/processing pipelines

### Nice to have
- AWS
- GCP

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