Tech Stack

Description

You will design, build, and maintain highly scalable, multi-tenant backend services for Temporal Cloud, owning the custom persistence stack including Write Ahead Log, metadata stores, multi-level caches, and tiered storage. You'll drive reliability through SLOs, chaos testing, and incident reviews, while providing technical leadership and collaborating across teams to deliver features end-to-end.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience building highly scalable distributed systems
• Solid CS fundamentals in distributed systems, multi-threading, concurrency
• Experience writing production concurrent code in Go or Java (high intermediate to expert level)
• Experience building and running services on AWS
• Experience with Elastic Search and/or Clickhouse

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed data systems: craft APIs, schemas, and replication paths for petabyte-scale workflow data
• Document design choices and operational knowledge to deploy and run services
• Drive reliability and performance: own SLOs, create chaos-test plans, profile hot paths, lead incident reviews
• Provide technical leadership: break down roadmap epics, mentor mid-level engineers, steward design docs through RFC
• Collaborate cross-team with Server, Cloud, and DX teams to land features end-to-end