Participate in design discussions and code reviews to help maintain a high-quality codebase.
Contribute to improving the developer experience for both open source users and enterprise customers.
Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge with teammates.
WHAT YOU'LL BRING
5+ years of experience building and operating production distributed systems.
Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, scheduling, and performance.
Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts including multi-threading and concurrency.
Experience writing concurrent code in production with languages like Go or Java or other applicable languages with skill level as "high end of Intermediate" and/or "Advanced" or "Expert" levels.
Experience building high-scale or performance-sensitive backend services, such as request-serving systems, task queues, scheduling systems, streaming or replication pipelines, rate limiting, sharding, load balancing, workflow engines, or orchestration systems.
Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and operational skills with a focus on reliability and observability.
Experience designing and building backend APIs or platform services.
Ability to work collaboratively across engineering teams and contribute to technical discussions.
Experience with open source software or communities is a plus.
Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP is a plus.
Experience with technologies such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL is a plus.
Experience with Kubernetes, CRDs, KEDA, or Argo is a plus.
WHAT MAKES YOU A GOOD FIT
You enjoy solving challenging distributed systems problems while keeping the developer experience in mind.
You like learning large codebases and making meaningful technical contributions over time.
You take ownership of your work and collaborate well with teammates.
You enjoy balancing technical depth with practical engineering decisions.
You don't need prior Temporal experience, but you're excited to work on the core of a distributed system used by a large open source community and enterprise customers.
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