Staff Software Engineer, Replication Foundations

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☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $169.6k - $278.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Temporal Technologies

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

📣 Marketing

💰 $75M Series B on 2023-02

Consulting • Manufacturing • Marketing

Temporal Technologies is a company that provides a platform for durable execution, helping developers build resilient applications by managing failures, network outages, and long-running processes. Their technology abstracts away the complexity of building scalable distributed systems, allowing developers to focus on delivering reliable systems faster. Temporal simplifies code by eliminating recovery logic, callbacks, and timers, making software more durable and fault tolerant. The platform supports a wide variety of applications, from transaction processing to applied AI, and is favored by developers for its ease of use and reliability. Temporal is open-source and offers both self-hosted and managed cloud services in multiple regions, enabling scalable, serverless application development.

📋 Description

• Set the technical direction and evolve Temporal’s OSS replication stack from problem definition through rollout and operational support • Lead design and implementation of replication protocols for High Availability namespaces, cross-cluster and cross-region replication, and migrations between Temporal clusters • Drive scalability and reliability initiatives including multi-cell namespaces, multi-cluster namespaces, load distribution, and hotspot handling • Define and communicate system-level guarantees covering consistency models, ordering, idempotency, failure recovery, performance, and operational behavior • Identify architectural risks and opportunities and shape the technical roadmap • Partner with Cloud Enablement, CGS, Product, and engineering teams • Lead design reviews, improve implementation and testing practices, mentor engineers, and provide technical guidance • Debug complex production issues, participate in incident response, and lead follow-up improvements

🎯 Requirements

• Track record of designing and delivering complex production distributed systems • Deep understanding of replication, partitioning, consistency, fault tolerance, durability, concurrency, and failure recovery • Experience defining system architecture, protocol behavior, invariants, and trade-offs • Experience debugging concurrency bugs, data inconsistencies, partial failures, and performance bottlenecks • Proficiency writing production-quality concurrent code in Go • Experience with Java, C++, or similar systems languages welcome • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Ability to influence technical direction across teams and mentor engineers • Thoughtful and curious approach to understanding system behavior under load, failure, and changing workloads • Experience designing or maintaining replication protocols or data-plane infrastructure (nice to have) • Experience with multi-cluster or multi-region architectures, including active-active or active-passive systems (nice to have) • Familiarity with database internals, log-based replication, or event-sourced systems (nice to have) • Prior contributions to large open source projects or distributed systems infrastructure (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Remote work arrangement • AI interview recording is used internally for evaluation, with an opt-out that does not impact candidacy • Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities • Equal opportunity employment

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