Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Temporal Technologies is an open source programming model company on a mission to simplify code and improve developer experience. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer focused on Observability to lead the software development lifecycle, design and build distributed systems, and mentor team members while ensuring high technical excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle: goals & requirements solicitation, design & review, implementation, operationalization & deployment, support & maintenance
- Lead feature design, review with stakeholders, iterate to incorporate feedback and drive consensus
- Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and manage the software you develop
- Provide 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 with a methodical approach to identify a root cause
- Understand performance and reliability implications of design options at scale. Make related tradeoffs
- Participate in the team’s on-call rotation
- Investigate and understand ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power our 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 design of other features
- Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale
Skills
- Lead the end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle: goals & requirements solicitation, design & review, implementation, operationalization & deployment, support & maintenance
- Lead feature design, review with stakeholders, iterate to incorporate feedback and drive consensus
- Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and manage the software you develop
- Provide 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 with a methodical approach to identify a root cause
- Understand performance and reliability implications of design options at scale. Make related tradeoffs
- Participate in the team's on-call rotation
- Expert-level knowledge of architecture and services of assigned domain. Strong command over all aspects of the Temporal ecosystem
- Investigate and understand ways to best leverage Temporal's own software to power our 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 design of other features
- Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale
- User-first mindset. You're excited by the opportunity to empower others through tooling, and enjoy deeply internalizing user goals and use cases to build effective solutions
- Motivated by impact. You are driven by a desire to make positive things happen
- 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
- Demonstrated ability to develop horizontally scalable, resilient, and high performance distributed systems in a production environment
- Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting large scale, geographically distributed observability and/or high throughput data streaming/processing pipelines, or similar
- Expert 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
- 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!
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com.
- Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
- $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
- $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
Company Overview
Temporal Technologies is an open-source platform that simplifies building and managing complex, long-running workflows and microservices. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://temporal.io.Company H1B Sponsorship
Temporal Technologies has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2026, 11 in 2025, 4 in 2024, 8 in 2023, 8 in 2022, 2 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.