Senior Software Engineer (Temporal)

Location: New York, New York; hybrid role associated with the New York City office

Base wage: $188,000–$242,000 per year

Company

hirify.global builds HR solutions that help businesses manage HR issues and focus on running their businesses.

What you will do

• Harden the shared self-hosted Temporal cluster for multi-tenant use through capacity modeling, namespace isolation, and admission control.
• Define SLOs, alerting, per-tenant observability, and reliable service promises for Temporal-backed services.
• Build golden paths, conventions, and documentation that enable teams to safely develop workflows on the shared platform.
• Enable multi-cluster availability and maintain resilience through cluster or regional failures.
• Own platform capacity and cost efficiency while partnering with tenant teams on workflow design, idempotency, and retry patterns.
• Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, investigate production issues, write postmortems, and tune alerts and SLOs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on production experience operating self-hosted Temporal, including running, maintaining, and tuning the cluster; Temporal Cloud alone or another workflow orchestrator does not substitute.
• Experience operating distributed systems at scale, including retries, idempotency, partial failure, and dependent datastore and storage configuration.
• Operational depth in Temporal internals and cluster administration.
• Experience securing and troubleshooting service-to-service communication between clients, workers, and the cluster.
• Experience leading a technical migration or infrastructure consolidation across multiple stakeholder teams.
• Experience defining SLOs and alerting for a platform-level service, including per-namespace or per-tenant observability and routing issues to owning teams.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Strong Golang proficiency plus at least one additional programming language.

Nice to have

• A specific programming language beyond Go.
• Experience with a particular cloud or Kubernetes flavor.
• A formal migration lead title.

Culture & Benefits

• Welcoming, casual, supportive, and entrepreneurial working environment.
• Benefits, wellness program offerings, and company retreats.
• Opportunities to learn from leaders in the startup community.
• Values include camaraderie, openness, grit, integrity, simplicity, teamwork, communication, and leadership.
• Inclusive workplace with equal-opportunity hiring and reasonable accommodation support.