Software Engineer - Core Infrastructure

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. Our amazing user community provides us with real-time feedback and contributions to improve the developer experience everywhere.

Backed by top VC firms, we have built a team of professionals from various successful start-ups and well-known technology companies. Together, we collaborate cross-functionally, engage with and support our users to improve the developer experience, deliver world-class open-source software, and enhance our commercial SaaS platform.

Temporal is growing and working towards building the best community. We are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for helping developer communities, open-source software, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!

We are searching for Software Engineers to join our core infrastructure team.

As a Software Engineer, you have 2-5 years in industry, and have the desire to grow and learn while making an impact on Temporal's scalable platform. You will get the chance to design, build, and maintain meaningful portions of the cloud infrastructure used by the Temporal server product, including working on the infrastructure for both our cloud offering and on-prem Enterprise solutions. You will also be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining significant pieces of backend functionality for a highly scalable multi-tenant service.

Working in a highly collaborative team, we look to build a new enterprise offering that will involve both on-premise and dedicated cloud offerings.

No matter where we are in our careers, mentorship is important to continued growth and learning. If you join us, you will be paired up with a senior member on the team who is working on what you will work on so you’ll add impact while learning. Everyone who works at Temporal and who joins Temporal learns - we have a wealth of info about Temporal in our internal "Temporal University" :) We also recognize people learn in different ways, and we support your learning style - some people like to read code or watch videos or read. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the culture and direction of Temporal, and grow your scope of influence naturally as we scale.

-Design and implement core backend service features for our infrastructure platform

-Apply core fundamentals to complex systems architecture to help tune the performance of all aspects of management software

-Provide appropriate test coverage unit, integration, and performance for 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

-Strive to understand the complex nature of unique problems and solutions through hands-on platform work, reading code, and asking the right questions

-2-5 years of experience

-Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts, and concurrency or multithreading

-Experience with Go, Java, or other applicable languages

-Experience with deployment as code systems such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet, or Ansible

-Container management, automating experience with K8 operators, Docker, and related tools

-Experience building systems with technologies like Kafka, Cassandra, MySQL, Elasticsearch

-Experience building and running services on AWS. Bonus: Microsoft Azure and Google GCP experience

-Bonus: Python, Node, Rust

-BS in CS is highly desired

- Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays & 2 Floating Holidays

- 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental / Ortho, and Vision Benefits

- AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)

- 401K Plan

- Up to 20 weeks of parental leave for birth parents and 12 weeks of leave for non-birth parents, including adoptive and foster parents

- $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning Stipend

- $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)

- $500 / Year Professional Memberships

- $300 / Month Work From Home Meals

- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet

- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness

- An "All Access" pass to a WeWork location