Software Engineer II, Open Source Server

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, test, and deploy well-defined features and enhancements for the Temporal server.

• Address challenges in distributed systems related to task matching, scheduling, workflow execution, visibility, quotas, throttling, persistence, developer primitives, and workflow lifecycle functionalities.

• Make engineering decisions that balance developer experience, performance, and operational effectiveness.

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, cloud teams, and customer-facing teams to comprehend requirements and deliver scalable solutions.

• Enhance server reliability and operability through testing, instrumentation, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation.

• Engage in design discussions and code review processes.

• Enhance the developer experience for both open-source users and enterprise customers through gradual improvements and bug fixes.

• Share insights with team members and contribute to a collaborative engineering environment.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in building and operating production backend systems.

• Background in distributed systems and concurrency.

• Strong foundational knowledge in computer science, including concurrency basics, data structures, and debugging skills.

• Proficiency in writing production-quality code in Go, Java, or another relevant backend programming language.

• Understanding of fault tolerance, consistency trade-offs, replication, scheduling, and performance considerations.

• Ability to decompose ambiguous problems into manageable tasks and integrate feedback from code reviews.

• Strong collaborative skills for cross-team interactions and effective communication of progress, risks, and trade-offs.

• Experience with testing methodologies and operational concepts such as logging, metrics, tracing, and on-call empathy is a plus.

• Familiarity with open source software or communities is a plus.

• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP is a plus.

• Exposure to Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL is a plus.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes or related tools, including CRDs, KEDA, or Argo, is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• Remote work arrangement.

• Equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation support.

• AI interview recording may be declined without affecting candidacy.