Staff Software Engineer, Observability

Expert-level knowledge of architecture and services of assigned domain. Strong command over all aspects of the Temporal ecosystem. This role provides a strong opportunity for diverse technical exposure!

Investigate and understand ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power our mission.

Deeply understand the needs of Temporal internal developers and external customers, and leverage that knowledge for product development and feature design.

Lead and mentor fellow team members.

Participate in design reviews and contribute to design of other features.

Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale.

User-first mindset. You’re excited by the opportunity to empower others through tooling, and enjoy deeply internalizing user goals and use cases to build effective solutions.

Motivated by impact. You are driven by a desire to make positive things happen.

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.

Core observability tech stack: Clickhouse, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos, Kubernetes, Temporal.

Our recent observability project had the biggest impact to Temporal margins of any engineering effort in company history while also unlocking unprecedented operator capabilities.

“Observability is the beating heart of our ability to deliver a mission critical service” -Preeti Somal, Senior VP of Engineering.