We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (or Software Engineer II) to join our Release Engineering team, focused on building and improving the systems that enable automated, reliable, and scalable software delivery across Temporal’s platform.
In this role, you will participate in the full software lifecycle — from design and implementation to deployment and long‑term operation — and will collaborate with engineering teams to evolve release automation, improve tooling, and reduce manual steps in how we build and ship Temporal.
What You'll Do- Design, build, and maintain tools and systems that support release automation and deployment workflows.
- Write clean, reliable, and concurrent code that supports distributed systems (e.g., build pipelines, deployment tooling).
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to understand and improve release quality and developer productivity.
- Document technical designs, deployment practices, and operational procedures.
- Participate in small‑team design reviews and contribute practical engineering solutions.
- Explore new ways to use Temporal to power the release and deployment lifecycle.
- Deepen your understanding of Temporal’s architecture and service interactions.
- Experiment with new automation patterns, testing strategies, and workflow designs that increase release confidence.
- Strong coding ability, especially in languages used at Temporal (e.g., Go, Java, or similar).
- Solid understanding of concurrency, distributed systems, and multi‑threaded programming.
- Experience contributing to backend systems, tooling, infrastructure, or developer workflows.
- Track record of solving moderately complex problems with reliable, maintainable solutions.
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a remote, fast‑paced environment.
- Familiarity with release automation concepts, CI/CD pipelines, build tools, or deployment orchestration.
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and container tooling.
- Exposure to distributed systems orchestration, observability tooling, or platform engineering.
Compensation
- The estimated pay range for this role is $150,000 – $220,000, depending on experience and location.
- Additionally, this role is 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.
Travel
Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
- $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.
