The Senior Software Engineer will lead data transformation and analysis, build data pipelines, create dashboards, and ensure data quality while collaborating with stakeholders.
Who We Are
Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. Our amazing user community provides us with real-time feedback and contributions to improve the developer experience everywhere.
Backed by top VC firms, we have built a team of professionals from various successful start-ups and well-known technology companies. Together, we collaborate cross-functionally, engage with and support our users to improve the developer experience, deliver world-class open-source software, and enhance our commercial SaaS platform.
Temporal is growing and working towards building the best community. We are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for helping developer communities, open-source software, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
Summary
The Data Engineer position at Temporal Technologies will play a key role in transforming and analyzing data within the data platform. This position requires an experienced data engineering professional with deep expertise across the entire data stack, and the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders. The work we do is centered around providing value to Temporal stakeholders by helping them use data to make business decisions. We stay laser-focused on prioritizing work that contributes to tangible, positive business outcomes.
The ideal candidate will rigorously apply software and data engineering best practices to the ingestion, storage, modeling, and analysis of data. This candidate will also have a deep interest in the data and spend time recommending and performing analyses.
The data engineer will also shape Temporal’s data strategy, guiding stakeholders in how they consume and act on data. This is an opportunity to design and build a world-class data platform from the ground up by implementing best-in-breed technologies and collaborating with extremely talented teammates.
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What You’ll Do
- Build out data pipelines to support ingestion of both event driven and batch driven workloads from internal tooling as well as 3rd party software and APIs
- Harden existing pipelines with data quality checks
- Model data for OLAP purposes
- Create actionable dashboards and reports that drive behavior in our business
- Perform and present analyses (exploratory, causal, predictive, diagnostic)
- Take end to end project ownership by facilitating working sessions with engineers and business stakeholders to design and produce data solutions that appropriately meet business needs
- Monitor performance of operations to ensure optimal performance of data ingest, processing, and querying
- Contribute to data platform roadmap by evaluating opportunities and recommending projects tied to delivering business needs
- Train and enable stakeholders on new data products as they are released to ensure optimal utilization and outcomes
- Experience across the data stack (ingest, storage, compute, data modeling, visualization, analysis)
- Strong interest in the data and what it represents to the business
- Experience owning key components of SLA bearing production data platform relying on distributed storage and compute components
- Experience building on data lake architectures
- Expertise within at least one of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience working with a wide range of data sources (APIs, logs, event stores, etc.)
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
- Experience with multiple data processing and query engines (Spark, Presto/Trino, Athena, BigQuery, etc.)
- Significant experience with both object stores and relational databases such as S3 and Redshift
- Ability to quickly gain proficiency in new tools and technologies
- Strong desire to continue to learn and experiment
- Strong communicator and collaborator with the ability to connect technical projects to business impact
Compensation
- The estimated pay range for this role is $165,000 - $210,000.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.
Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded.
U.S. Benefits
- 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!
International Benefits
- 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.
Additional Perks
- $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
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.
We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.
Top Skills
Athena
AWS
Azure
BigQuery
GCP
Presto
Python
Redshift
S3
Spark
SQL
Trino
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