Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage

As a Staff Engineer, you will get the chance to design, build, and maintain significant portions of our backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services. You’ll own the custom persistence stack for Temporal Cloud which includes a Write Ahead Log, various metadata stores (Cassandra, etcd), multi-level caches, tiered storage etc.

What You'll Do
Design & build distributed data systems – craft APIs, schemas, and replication paths that keep petabytes of workflow history durable and query-able. Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run service with those features.
Drive reliability & performance – own SLOs, create chaos-test plans, profile hot paths, and lead incident reviews.
Technical leadership – break down roadmap epics, mentor mid-level engineers, steward design docs through RFC.
Cross-team collaboration – partner with the Server, Cloud, and DX teams to land features end-to-end.
What You'll Bring
5 or more years of experience as an "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer" of highly scalable distributed systems. see HERE for more info re: "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer"
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. see HERE for more info re: "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.

Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.

Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded.

U.S. 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, Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
International Benefits
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, home office setup, professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.

Skills Required
5 or more years experience in distributed systems
Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems
Experience writing concurrent code in Go or Java
Experience building and running services on AWS