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New York, New York, United States
Hybrid
At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.
We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.
We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.
You have run Temporal in production — not just written workflows on top of it. You've operated a self-hosted cluster yourself, configured and maintained the datastores it depends on, and reasoned about retries, idempotency, and partial failure under real load. You've been the person other teams escalate to when something breaks. You think in terms of guarantees, and you can say concretely what teams building on a shared platform should be able to assume, and how you'd prove the platform is holding up its end.
You've also led a technical migration, infrastructure consolidation, or platform re-architecture across multiple stakeholder teams — sequencing risk, owning the decision record, and driving it to completion.
This is a senior individual contributor role on Shared Services, the team that owns and operates platform shared capabilities across Justworks engineering, so product teams can build on reliable, well-run foundations without owning that complexity themselves. You would be the team's de facto Temporal tech lead and its long-term technical authority on the platform.
The role spans both halves of platform engineering: operating and hardening a live system other teams depend on today, and building the scaffolding, conventions, and documentation that make it straightforward to build on tomorrow. You'll be hands-on with reliability and migration work, and you'll help shape what the platform becomes as more teams adopt it.
Good judgment — the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.
Resourcefulness — taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what's in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better.
Teamwork and communication — putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.
Influence and leadership — fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking.
Skills and knowledge — the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve.
These are the parts of the profile we consider coachable — hands-on Temporal depth matters more than any of them:
The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $188,000.00 - $242,000.00 per year.
Use of AI Tools. We may use artificial intelligence and other automated tools to process your personal information as part of the recruitment process. For example, we may use these tools to record, transcribe, and summarize interviews, to help organize and review applications, and to help us assess candidates by comparing their skills, experience, and qualifications against the criteria for open roles. These tools support, but do not replace, human review. We do not make hiring decisions based solely on automated processing, and all final hiring decisions are made by Justworks recruiters and hiring managers. Depending on where you reside, you may have rights regarding our use of automated tools. For more information, please contact us at privacy@justworks.com.#LI-Hybrid #LI-RG1
Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.
For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks.
Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at accommodations@justworks.com. Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.
