Staff Software Engineer, Nexus SDK at Temporal Technologies
$176,000–$237,000from the description
Jul 7, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and maintaining Nexus interfaces across multiple Temporal SDKs — the runtime environments through which developers orchestrate durable workflows across application boundaries. The work involves designing idiomatic APIs in several languages, deeply integrating with language runtimes and type systems, and contributing to open-source SDK code. Strong candidates will have distributed systems experience and production-level fluency in at least two of Python, TypeScript, .NET, Ruby, or Rust.
Senior level · 7+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 190,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 80,000–286,000
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The JD requires deep expertise in at least 2 of the following languages: Python, TypeScript, .NET, Ruby, and Rust. These are listed as a group with an 'at least 2' qualifier, so Python is emitted as the primary skill with the others as alternatives — but the actual gate is proficiency in any two of the five, not specifically Python.
Go, Java, and others appear in the concurrent-code experience section under the main requirements block as examples ('languages like Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, .NET or other applicable languages'); Go is emitted as a preferred/contextual skill since the primary language gate is the Python/TypeScript/.NET/Ruby/Rust group.
The role explicitly requires experience with SDK libraries and/or open-source systems; 'open source' is noted as a preferred signal given the team's OSS-first culture, though SDK development is marked as a hard gate.
No degree requirement is stated anywhere in the posting.
The $176,000–$237,000 range is stated as reflecting multiple geographic markets; actual offer may vary by location.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): API design, SDK development.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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