Temporal Technologies
Senior Software Engineer, Nexus Server
$141K–$231K
Seattle, Washington +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, Washington
San Francisco, California - Experience
- At least 6 years in production highly scalable distributed systems; 2+ years developing customer-facing APIs and frameworks.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates backend features for Temporal’s scalable, multi-tenant Nexus services, including distributed-systems components and workflow invocation through standard protocols.
What you'll do
- Design and implement core Nexus backend service features, with unit, integration, and performance test coverage.
- Document design and operational knowledge; provide logs, metrics, alerts, dashboards, and runbooks for production operations.
- Help build an enterprise offering for on-premise and dedicated cloud deployments.
What they ask for
- At least 6 years in a production environment working on highly scalable distributed systems as an “Arranger” and/or “Builder/Enhancer.”
- Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems, including multi-threading and concurrency.
- 2+ years developing customer-facing APIs and frameworks.
- Production experience writing concurrent code in Go, Java, or another applicable language at the stated high-intermediate, advanced, or expert skill level.
Pay
$140.8K – $231K (base salary; currency not stated)
Tools
Go, Java
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