Infrastructure Engineer JVM

We are expanding our team and you can be anywhere in the United States to join us.

At Temporal, we are on a mission to remove the complexity in developing reliable software for the cloud. If you want to solve hard distributed system problems, have a passion for open source software and building a strong developer community, then come join us in our mission. Temporal offers an entirely new way to build scalable and reliable applications. Temporal enables developers to focus on writing important business logic, and not on managing state or worrying about the underlying infrastructure. The Temporal platform is already being trusted by top-tier companies as a core technology in their mission critical systems. Our active open source community of developers, who are also our users, provide us with real-time feedback and contributions. We're backed by top VC firms and have a team of professionals from start-ups and larger companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Uber, Apple, Cisco and more.

Join us on our Infrastructure Engineering team. Work remotely, and do the best work of your career while making a profound impact.

What you will Achieve

As a Java Virtual Machine Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the design and development of core features for our Infrastructure and Observability Platform. If you desire to learn and grow, you will enjoy this dynamic and positive work environment. This is an opportunity to work with new technologies, where innovation surrounds you and is rewarded. This is a very Senior to Principal band role.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement core backend service features for our infrastructure and observability monitoring platform.
• Apply core Java fundamentals to complex systems architecture to help tune the performance of all aspects of management software
• Provide appropriate test coverage, unit, integration, performance for feature ownership areas
• Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run service with those features
• Provide appropriate service level logs and metrics to make features operational for cloud service setup
• Strive to understand the complex nature of unique problems and solutions through hands-on platform work, reading code, and asking the right questions

What You bring to us

• At least 10+ years coding experience in Java
• Experience with distributed systems and concurrency primitives
• Experience in setting up observability infrastructure using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos
• Deployment as code systems such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet or Ansible
• Container management, automating experience with K8 operators, Docker and related tools
• Scripting experience using bash, zsh, etc.
• Debugging and scaling production infrastructure and services*Enjoys solving complex problems
• Understanding of (AWS, GCP, Azure) and other virtualized environments
• Experience with Python, Go, or other applicable languages
• Bachelors in Computer Science or related degree

Additional perks

• A new category of software
• Collaborative, productive, and fun team
• Competitive salary
• Equity
• Unlimited time-off
• Medical, dental (including ortho), & vision benefits (premiums paid by company)
• AD&D, long and short - term disability, life insurance (standard and supplemental)
• HSA + employer contribution
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness / Food allowance ($) per month
• 401K plan
• $1000 for home office setup in addition to company issued hardware
• What team members bring to the table
• First principles and critical thinking skills, good design sensibilities, experience working in or with distributed systems and the challenges they bring, and a passion for advancing the state of the art along with the potential to change the way developers everywhere write distributed applications.
• What team members are doing at Temporal

Collaborating daily with highly technical and truly brilliant leaders in the field, drawing pictures and writing words around architecture, design and implementation of innovative systems and software. Writing clean code either building on or utilizing Temporal to make the world a better place by providing value to developers through world-class open source and hosted software.

We're currently investing in our

• Open Source Server platform
• Open Source Client Runtime/SDK to support many programming languages
• Developer community to build integrations
• SaaS offering
• Best in-class Frontend

Technology we enjoy

• The right tool for the job
• Entirely cloud-based infrastructure
• A variety of programming languages
• CNCF projects and cloud native tooling
• Managed services with clean APIs
• Open Source Software
• Hashicorp Software
• Developer's choice of operating system (Mac, Linux, Windows)
• Note: Temporal is written in Go (server) and Rust (core SDK), but language specific experience is not necessary to join.
• Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate difference and diversity.
• We are not working with agencies, thanks.