Software Engineer II

We’re looking for an engineer who is excited to learn these systems and contribute to their scalability, reliability, and developer experience. This is a hands-on role where you’ll collaborate with experienced engineers, product managers and partner teams to design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines while growing your distributed-systems expertise.

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement, test, and ship well-scoped features and improvements for Temporal Cloud with support from teammates.
• Build and improve services that support namespace provisioning, configuration, scalability, and reliability.
• Develop data pipelines that process high-volume usage and operational data across multiple tenants.
• Make thoughtful engineering tradeoffs with guidance, balancing data freshness, query cost, tenant isolation, reliability, and operational complexity.
• Improve service operability through tests, instrumentation, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, incident response, and production debugging.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to understand requirements and deliver scoped projects safely.
• Improve developer and customer experience through automation, better tooling, and incremental product improvements.

• Experience building and operating production backend systems in a cloud environment.
• Proficiency in Go or another applicable backend or systems language, with the ability to ramp up in an existing codebase.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, concurrency basics, testing, and debugging.
• Working knowledge of distributed-systems concepts such as reliability, fault tolerance, consistency, scaling, and failure handling.
• Experience with databases, data pipelines, messaging systems, or object storage.
• The ability to take a scoped problem, break it into smaller tasks, implement a solution end to end, and incorporate feedback.
• An operational mindset, including familiarity with logging, metrics, tracing, deployment, and production troubleshooting.
• Comfort collaborating across teams and communicating progress, risks, and technical tradeoffs clearly.
• A commitment to correctness, maintainability, and leaving systems better than you found them.

Nice to Have

• 3+ years of work experience
• Experience with Go.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redshift, Kinesis, Firehose
• Experience with S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, or other object-storage systems.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience supporting on-call rotations, investigating incidents, or improving production observability.
• Familiarity with Temporal concepts-or a strong interest in learning the platform.

Technology Stack

• Primary language: Go
• Data storage: PostgreSQL, Redshift, S3,Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, ClickHouse
• Data processing: Kinesis, Firehose
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes
• Core framework: Temporal

You do not need experience with every technology in our stack. We value strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to learn unfamiliar systems.

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