Software Engineer Ii

November 5, 2026

Remote (within country)

Middle

United States

Description

The Open Source Server team builds and maintains the core server of a distributed workflows platform. The Software Engineer II will design, ship, and operate features across task matching, scheduling, workflow execution, visibility, quotas, and workflow lifecycle areas. This is a hands-on engineering role involving design discussions, code reviews, testing, instrumentation, and collaboration with product and customer-facing teams.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, test, and ship well-scoped features and improvements for the server with teammate support
Work on distributed systems problems spanning task matching, scheduling, workflow execution, visibility, quotas, throttling, and persistence
Make thoughtful engineering tradeoffs balancing developer experience, performance, and operability requirements
Partner with engineers, product managers, cloud teams, and customer-facing teams to deliver scalable solutions
Improve reliability and operability of the server through tests, instrumentation, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation
Participate in design discussions and code reviews to learn best practices and contribute to a high-quality codebase
Improve developer experience for open source users and enterprise customers through incremental improvements and bug fixes
Share knowledge with teammates and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture

Requirements

Experience building and operating production backend systems, including distributed systems and concurrency
Strong computer science fundamentals covering concurrency basics, data structures, and debugging
Experience writing production-quality code in Go, Java, or another applicable backend language
Familiarity with core distributed systems concepts such as fault tolerance, consistency tradeoffs, replication, and scheduling
Ability to break down ambiguous problems into smaller tasks and incorporate feedback from code review
Comfort working collaboratively across teams and communicating progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly
Plus: experience with testing practices and an operational mindset, including logging, metrics, and tracing
Plus: experience with open source software or communities
Plus: experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP
Plus: exposure to technologies such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL
Plus: exposure to Kubernetes or related tooling such as CRDs, KEDA, and Argo
Excitement to keep building and deepening distributed systems expertise
Enjoys learning large, complex codebases and thriving in ambiguity
Takes ownership of work, follows through, and collaborates well with teammates
Excitement to work on the core used by a large open source community

Conditions

Remote work within the United States

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