Senior Software Engineer, Observability

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Lead the end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle
Formulate feature designs, review with stakeholders, iterate to incorporate feedback and drive consensus
Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge
Provide appropriate test and production readiness coverage
Design and build multi-component, distributed systems
Investigate issues with a methodical approach to identify a root cause
Understand performance and reliability implications of design options at scale
Make related tradeoffs
Participate in the team’s on-call rotation
Investigate and understand ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software
Deeply understand the needs of Temporal internal developers and external customers
Participate in design reviews and contribute to design of other features
Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale

Demonstrated ability to develop horizontally scalable, resilient, and high performance distributed systems in a production environment
Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting large scale, geographically distributed observability and/or high throughput data streaming/processing pipelines, or similar
Expert in one or more high-level programming languages, preferably Go
Expert-level Kubernetes skills
Expert-level query development skills, preferably SQL
Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers, preferably AWS, or GCP
Thorough understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking
Familiarity with best practices regarding monitoring, instrumenting, and configuring infrastructure

User-first mindset
Motivated by impact
Strong opinions about tools and technology that are equally balanced by a pragmatic drive for impact
Ability to work in a self-directed manner in a fast-paced environment
Excellent collaboration and communication skills

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