Staff Software Engineer, Replication & Go (Remote US)

Temporal's Replication Foundations team owns the replication stack behind high-availability namespaces, cross-region failover and migrations into Temporal Cloud. As a Staff Software Engineer you set the technical direction for these correctness-critical distributed systems.

Key responsibilities

• Set the direction and architecture of Temporal's open-source replication stack
• Lead replication for high-availability namespaces and cross-region failover
• Lead migrations between self-hosted Temporal and Temporal Cloud
• Define guarantees for consistency, ordering, idempotency and recovery
• Lead design reviews, mentor engineers and debug hard production issues

Requirements

• Delivered complex production distributed systems where correctness was critical
• Deep knowledge of replication, partitioning, consistency and failure recovery
• Concurrent production code in Go; Java or C++ also welcome
• Influence across teams without direct authority

Nice to have

• Replication protocols or data-plane infrastructure
• Multi-region active-active or active-passive systems

Remote details

• Full-time remote role, open to people in the United States

Salary and benefits

US base salary $169,600 to $278,250 a year, depending on location, plus equity. Temporal also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.