Staff Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Location: United States (Remote); Seattle, Washington

Salary: $169,600–$278,250 annually, depending on US market tier, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global develops Temporal OSS and Temporal Cloud, including distributed workflow infrastructure and cloud services.

What you will do

• Set the technical direction and evolve the architecture of Temporal’s OSS replication stack from problem definition through rollout and operations.
• Design and implement replication protocols for high-availability namespaces, cross-cluster and cross-region replication, and migrations between self-hosted and cloud environments.
• Drive scalability and reliability improvements, including multi-cell namespaces, multi-cluster namespaces, load distribution, and hotspot handling.
• Define system guarantees covering consistency, ordering, idempotency, failure recovery, performance, and operational behavior.
• Lead design reviews, improve implementation and testing practices, mentor engineers, and align replication foundations with product and customer needs.
• Debug complex production issues, participate in incident response, and lead follow-up improvements.

Requirements

• Track record of designing and delivering complex production distributed systems where correctness, availability, and performance are critical.
• Deep understanding of replication, partitioning, consistency, fault tolerance, durability, concurrency, and failure recovery.
• Experience defining architecture, protocol behavior, invariants, and trade-offs in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Proficiency writing production-quality concurrent code in Go.
• Experience debugging concurrency bugs, data inconsistencies, partial failures, and performance bottlenecks.
• Strong communication, cross-team technical influence, and engineering mentorship skills.

Nice to have

• Experience designing or maintaining replication protocols or data-plane infrastructure.
• Experience with multi-cluster or multi-region architectures, including active-active or active-passive systems.
• Familiarity with database internals, log-based replication, or event-sourced systems.
• Contributions to large open source projects or distributed systems infrastructure.
• Experience with Java, C++, or similar systems languages.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote role within the United States.
• Work spans Temporal OSS and Temporal Cloud.
• Salary includes market-based US tiers and equity.
• Equal-opportunity employment with reasonable accommodation available for disabilities.