The Cloud Capacity team plays a critical role in ensuring the Temporal Cloud is scalable, efficient, and reliable for our customers’ most important workloads. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll lead high-impact initiatives to build systems that intelligently manage and forecast resource needs, directly influencing our infrastructure efficiency, customer experience, and platform cost strategy.
What You'll Do
Drive the technical vision and roadmap for Temporal’s Cloud Capacity systems in partnership with engineering and product leadership.
Design and implement infrastructure to track resource utilization, forecast consumption, and support automated capacity planning at scale.
Lead development of a resource manager that optimizes infrastructure efficiency based on usage trends, cost insights, and evolving customer needs.
Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Cloud Infrastructure, and Finance to inform business-critical decisions around provisioning, pricing, and scaling.
Guide long-term strategy to support intelligent autoscaling, workload isolation, and predictable performance in a multi-tenant cloud environment.
What You'll Bring
Proven experience contributing to large-scale infrastructure efforts spanning cloud compute, storage, and networking systems.
Strong product and operational intuition around managing cloud costs, utilization tracking, and workload forecasting.
A track record of designing distributed systems and services in a production cloud environment (preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Hands-on experience with container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes) and the surrounding ecosystem.
Exceptional collaboration and communication skills—you influence through clarity, and you bring others along for the journey.
Comfortable aligning cross-functional stakeholders on complex infrastructure problems, including executives and finance partners.
7+ years of experience building production software using Go, Java, or similar languages.
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Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience building production software using Go, Java, or similar languages
- Experience contributing to large-scale infrastructure spanning cloud compute, storage, and networking systems
- Experience designing distributed systems and services in a production cloud environment
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and the surrounding ecosystem
- Strong product and operational intuition around cloud costs, utilization tracking, and workload forecasting
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills
- Experience aligning cross-functional stakeholders on complex infrastructure problems, including executives and finance partners
Temporal Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as 100% employer-paid for medical, dental, and vision, with AD&D, short- and long-term disability, and life insurance included. Feedback suggests this breadth and cost coverage is a strong differentiator for a remote-first employer.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes unlimited PTO alongside 12 standard holidays and 2 floating holidays. Feedback suggests this structure supports rest and recharge across teams.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and remote-work support include a home office stipend, internet reimbursement, WFH meals, Calm app access, a lifestyle spending account, and learning/professional membership budgets. Feedback suggests these perks enhance overall total rewards beyond base pay.
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What We Do
Temporal develops and distributes the world's leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industry's most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
