Staff Software Engineer - Open Source Server
Temporal TechnologiesUnited States - Remote Opportunity$170k – $250kPosted 27 February 2026
Job Description
About Us
Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.
Our values guide us —they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We’re curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
We are currently hiring Staff Software Engineers across multiple back-end systems teams. The work you will do as a Staff Engineer is key to developing features without complicating Temporal, as the increasing complexity of our systems creates additional challenges. You will design, build, and maintain significant portions of our backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services.
Examples of the key distributed systems aspects you can impact include (but not limited to) latency, scale, reliability, multi-region failover, and availability.
Working in a highly collaborative team, we’ll look to build a new enterprise offering that will involve both on-premise and dedicated cloud offerings.
To see more details about projects the OSS team is working on and demo videos, click here - [new window opens]
What You'll Do
Design and implement core backend service features
Provide appropriate test coverage for unit, integration, and performance for your feature ownership area
Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run service with those features
Provide appropriate service level logs and metrics to make features operational for cloud service setup
Provide appropriate alerts, dashboards, and runbooks for production
What You'll Bring
Rich experience as an "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer" in large-scale distributed systems design (reliability, scalability). see HERE for more info re: "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer"
Operational experience in large-scale distributed systems environments
Experience developing highly concurrent systems
Demonstrated experience writing concurrent code in production as Advanced or Expert levels. see HERE for more info re: Advanced or Expert levels
Knowledge and experience of reliability so you can further ensure the high reliability of the Temporal system
Experience with Elastic Search or Clickhouse
Ideas and actions to improve the velocity of the team
Nice to Have
Familiarity with Go, other similar languages great too
Experience with infrastructure environments (strong plus)
Compensation
The estimated pay range for this role is $170,000 - $250,000
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
ADD, 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!
International Benefits
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued i ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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