United States onlyWe have an opening to hire a Senior Language Runtime Engineer. Our team makes the Temporal SDKs — our SDKs are the primary mechanism through which our customers use Temporal. This is harder than it sounds. SDKs are not thin clients; they act as runtime environments for application code, contain complex internal logic, and coordinate closely with Temporal Server to provide the durable-execution guarantees our customers require.
Most of our work is open source—see for yourself here:https://github.com/temporalio [new window]
See our SDK team page for more [new window]
What You Will Do
- Take end-to-end ownership of new features, working with others in the SDK and Server teams to deliver exceptional reliability and a great developer experience.
- Design and build Temporal SDKs used by customers to work with Temporal in their programming language of choice.
- Tightly integrate Temporal SDKs with their respective languages, making best use of type systems and language runtimes, to execute application code in a durable, deterministic way.
- Develop features that provide a foundation for the reliable execution of the current wave of agentic AI systems. Be a part of the fundamentals, instead of a part of the trend!
- Work directly with our community to debug issues that need expert attention, and get feedback on Temporal SDK features and APIs.
- Write publicly-readable technical documentation describing Temporal concepts and APIs.
- Go the extra mile to support a customer in need, on the rare occasion that SDK engineering expertise is needed.
- Travel to meet your coworkers for a week once or twice a year.
- Attend the occasional developer conference to talk about how great Temporal is (optional).
What You Won’t Do
- Work in an office (unless you want to, but you’d be by yourself). Temporal is a fully-remote company.
- Commit code that’s poorly-tested or works “most of the time”. Temporal aspires to be “Reliable as Gravity”, and we expect your code to be the same.
- Overwork yourself to meet a deadline. Instead of crunch time, we cut scope.
- Work behind closed doors. The SDKs are open source—that means PRs and comments are open to the public, too.
- Sit in meetings all day. We mostly communicate in writing, and use meetings mainly for status updates and thorny issues that need input from the whole group.
- Wake up to pager alerts. We’re extremely active in supporting our customers and the community, but we don’t do 24/7 on-call.
What You’ll Bring
- BS or MS in Computer Science (or a closely-related degree), or equivalent work experience writing production-grade software.
- Fluency in multiple programming languages, and an affinity for learning new ones. We don’t care which, but you should know at least two, and love learning new ones.
- Deep experience with concurrent programming—you should know how to use mutexes, atomics, and other concurrency primitives safely.
- Deep experience with distributed systems—you should know what to do when you can’t rely on mutexes and atomics.
- Experience designing APIs and writing documentation for publicly-available libraries or modules.
- A methodical, detail-oriented approach to your work.
- Strong technical communication skills—written and verbal—in English.
- A deep sense of ownership and personal accountability—you care about the impact of your work, and if something goes wrong, you take responsibility for making it right.
- A proactive approach to managing your work—you’ll need to balance working autonomously vs. working closely with others, and recognize when you need help.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with Temporal’s programming model (e.g. you’ve written an app on Temporal).
- Experience writing in Go, Java, Python, .NET, TypeScript, Ruby and/or Rust.
- Experience contributing to open source projects.
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design of large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep knowledge of language runtimes.
Compensation
- The estimated pay range for this role is $180,000 - $215,000.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
- Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
- Empower 401K Plan
- Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
- $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
- $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
- $500 / Year Professional Memberships
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
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