Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage

Job Summary

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Cloud Data Store (CDS) team at Temporal Technologies. As a Staff Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain significant portions of our backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services. You will own the custom persistence stack for Temporal Cloud, which includes a Write Ahead Log, various metadata stores (Cassandra, etcd), multi-level caches, tiered storage, and more.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed data systems – craft APIs, schemas, and replication paths that keep petabytes of workflow history durable and query-able.
• Drive reliability and performance – own SLOs, create chaos-test plans, profile hot paths, and lead incident reviews.
• Provide technical leadership – break down roadmap epics, mentor mid-level engineers, and steward design docs through RFC.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams – partner with the Server, Cloud, and DX teams to land features end-to-end.

Requirements

• 5 or more years of experience 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 or Java or other applicable languages with skill level as "high end of Intermediate" and/or "Advanced" or "Expert" levels.
• Experience building and running services on AWS. Bonus: Microsoft Azure and Google GCP experience.
• Experience with Elastic Search and/or Clickhouse.

Nice to Have

• Prior contributions to Temporal, Cadence, or other workflow engines.
• Deep expertise in a storage domain (LSM trees, columnar stores, transactional logs, etc.).
• Operated multi-region, ≥99.99 % uptime services.
• Experience working with Open Source Systems.
• Experience in building K8s controllers and/or CRDs is a plus.

Compensation

• The estimated pay range for this role is $212,000 - $286,000 depending on experience and location.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

Benefits

• 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!

Travel

• Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.