Staff Software Engineer - Open Source Server
Temporal Technologies
About this role
Staff Software Engineers will design, build, and maintain significant portions of Temporal’s backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services, focusing on reliability, latency, scale, availability, and multi-region failover. The role contributes to a new enterprise offering including on-premise and dedicated cloud deployments and involves collaboration across teams to improve developer experience and the open-source product. Engineers will also capture operational knowledge and support production readiness for cloud services.
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About Temporal Technologies
temporal.ioTemporal provides an open-source durable execution platform for building reliable, stateful, long-running applications and orchestrating microservices. It handles common distributed-systems complexity — retries, state persistence, timers, and error handling — so teams can ship features faster and make apps resilient to failures. Temporal is available as self-hosted software and a managed cloud service, with SDKs for popular languages and tooling for observability and scaling. Developers choose Temporal for its fault-tolerance, scalability, and improved developer productivity when implementing complex workflows.
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About Temporal Technologies
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Leadership Team
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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Salary
$170k – $250k
per year