Summary
The Temporal Cloud Foundations group is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with deep experience building reliable and scalable distributed systems in production. In this role, you’ll lead the design, development, and improvement of the infrastructure that powers the Temporal Cloud Platform. You’ll partner closely with teammates and cross-functional stakeholders to drive architecture, guide technical trade-offs, and operate services that support our customers at scale.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the foundation of our platform while gaining deep expertise with the Temporal open source server and our cloud services. This role is ideal for engineers who are highly technical, collaborative, and eager to take ownership in building infrastructure for a hyper-growth company.
[This is not an internal deployment role]
What You’ll Do
- Lead the design and implementation of features for our Cloud Operational API, Temporal Workflows, Enterprise Features, and data pipelines.
- Drive architectural discussions, setting direction for the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of our services.
- Build and advocate for a strong developer experience for Temporal Cloud customers.
- Make and communicate practical technical trade-offs that balance customer needs, reliability, and system performance.
- Take ownership across the lifecycle of services—from design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and operations.
- Improve and scale our tools (operational tools, CI/CD, deployment systems), processes, and engineering practices.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers on the team, raising the overall technical bar.
What You Bring to Us
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years working on scalable distributed systems in production.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consensus, concurrency, fault tolerance, and multi-threading.
- Proficiency in writing concurrent code in a language like Go, Java, or similar.
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating production systems in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Track record of driving projects from concept through design, implementation, launch, and ongoing operations.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in small, collaborative, high-ownership teams.
- Experience mentoring or leading engineers, and contributing to architectural decisions.
What Is Good to Have
- Experience optimizing and tuning distributed systems for performance and cost efficiency.
- Prior exposure to building components of cloud control planes or enterprise-scale infrastructure.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and modern cloud-native tooling.
- Contributions to open source distributed systems or infrastructure projects.
Compensation
- The estimated pay range for this role is $180,000 – $225,000, depending on experience and location.
- This role is also eligible to participate in Temporal’s equity plan.
- 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!
- 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.
- $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
Top Skills
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.
