We have an opening for a Senior Staff Software Engineer in our Infrastructure organization focused on driving technical vision, setting architecture standards, and executing complex, high-leverage projects across cloud compute, traffic, security, and reliability.The high-impact role will broadly own the technical design and implementation of systems powering Temporal Cloud. You should be comfortable leading technical discussions with stakeholders, engaging with strategic customers, working effectively with executives, engineering leadership, and individual contributors across multiple teams. You are motivated to mentor and elevate the engineering bar and have a proven track record of deep technical impact.
What You'll DoInvent:
Define and execute the long-term architectural strategy for our multi-cloud compute and traffic platforms.
Lead hands-on implementation for critical infrastructure projects, focusing on reliability, system automation and performance at scale.
Multi-year technical roadmaps establishing vision for infrastructure scalability, reliability, security, and engineering velocity.
Maintain a culture of engineering and operational excellence.
Own:
Technical leadership and mentorship of engineers through design reviews and code contributions—you define the technical direction and eliminate architectural barriers to execution.
Maintain end-to-end technical stewardship for your systems, ensuring execution aligns with architectural vision and best practices.
Act as a key technical advisor to Engineering Leadership and Product Management, influencing the strategic direction of Temporal Cloud infrastructure.
Cross-team collaboration to align architectural roadmaps and drive adoption of best practices.
Participation and leadership in design reviews for projects across Infrastructure (Developer Productivity) with a focus on automation, infrastructure, scalability, and reliability.
Partnering with Security to build ‘secure by default’ systems.
Engaging with key customers to help understand their deep technical requirements and enable their business with platform capabilities.
The reliability of systems under your technical ownership.
Ensuring team members have clarity on the technical vision, priorities, and the tools and processes needed to meet shipping deadlines.
Teach:
Design principles for building reliable, secure, and scalable systems.
Grow others via technical mentorship, architectural guidance, and driving the engineering excellence bar.
Learn:
Ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power infrastructure at scale.
Customer needs that drive infrastructure design and architectural decisions.
Graduate degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
Expert-level design and coding skills with deep knowledge of performance tuning, concurrency, and distributed systems architecture.
Extensive experience designing and implementing large-scale public cloud infrastructure.
Excellent technical leadership and impact—at least 10 years of experience as a Software Engineer, with significant time spent operating at the Senior/Staff IC level.
Deep experience in building and leading the development of complex distributed software systems and microservices for a cloud infrastructure organization.
Hands-on expertise with multiple cloud providers, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Superior collaboration skills and experience driving technical alignment across an organization and drafting long-term technical roadmaps.
Excellent oral and written communication skills and a willingness to communicate complex solutions and results to all levels of the organization.
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Skills Required
- Graduate degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Expert-level system design and coding skills
- Deep knowledge of performance tuning, concurrency, and distributed systems architecture
- Extensive experience designing and implementing large-scale public cloud infrastructure
- At least 10 years of experience as a Software Engineer
- Significant experience operating at the Senior or Staff individual contributor level
- Deep experience building and leading complex distributed software systems and microservices for a cloud infrastructure organization
- Hands-on expertise with multiple cloud providers, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Superior collaboration skills and experience driving technical alignment across an organization
- Experience drafting long-term technical roadmaps
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Willingness to communicate complex solutions and results to all levels of the organization
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.
