Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage

Temporal Technologies Inc.
United States
4 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$169,600.0 - $278,250.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Cloud Database Distributed Data Store Distributed Systems Elasticsearch Open Source Technology Multithreading Concurrency
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Build Management Kubernetes Vertica

Job description

  • Design & build distributed data systems - craft APIs, schemas, and replication paths that keep petabytes of workflow history durable and query-able. Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run service with those features.
  • Drive reliability & performance - own SLOs, create chaos-test plans, profile hot paths, and lead incident reviews.
  • Technical leadership - break down roadmap epics, mentor mid-level engineers, steward design docs through RFC.
  • Cross-team collaboration - partner with the Server, Cloud, and DX teams to land features end-to-end.

Requirements

  • 5 or more years of experience as an “Arranger” and/or “Builder/Enhancer” of highly scalable distributed systems. see HERE for more info re: “Arranger” and/or “Builder/Enhancer”
  • 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. see HERE for more info re: “high end of Intermediate” and/or “Advanced” or “Expert levels”
  • Experience building and running services on AWS. Bonus: Microsoft Azure and Google GCP experience.
  • Experience with Elastic Search and/or Clickhouse

Nice to Have

  • Prior contributions to Temporal, Cadence, or other workflow engines.
  • Deep expertise in a storage domain (LSM trees, columnar stores, transactional logs, etc.).
  • Operated multi-region, 99.99 % uptime services.
  • Experience working with Open Source Systems.
  • Experience in building K8s controllers and/or CRDs is a plus

About the company

Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.

Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.

Compensation Range: $169,600 - $278,250

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