# Staff Software Engineer, Observability at Temporal

- Company: Temporal
- What the company does: Backed by Index, Sequoia and a16z.
- Company website: http://temporal.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $170K to $278K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/temporal/ab6f8a80-5800-4f29-9c7a-ac2df3e1fe66
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/temporal-staff-software-engineer-observability/

## About the role

We have an opening for a Staff Software Engineer on our Infrastructure Team, with specific focus on Observability - both internal and customer-facing . This is an opportunity to join a mission-critical engineering team that is driving the productivity and reliability of Temporal’s developers and core platforms, respectively. We are a passionate team of talented developers who truly care about our mission and enjoy working deeply across the entire Temporal ecosystem to be a force multiplier across the organization.

## What they're looking for

- Demonstrated ability to develop horizontally scalable, resilient, and high performance distributed systems in a production environment
- Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting large scale, geographically distributed observability and/or high throughput data streaming/processing pipelines, or similar
- Expert in one or more high-level programming languages, preferably Go
- Expert-level Kubernetes skills
- Expert-level query development skills, preferably SQL
- Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers, preferably AWS, or GCP

Tags: Engineering