Summary
We are seeking a Staff Cloud Security Engineer to join our Security team, where you'll play a pivotal role in securing the Temporal infrastructure and product. In this position, you’ll work closely with our platform, infrastructure and software engineering teams to ensure that our infrastructure and services are resilient, secure, and scalable. You’ll contribute directly to protecting both our internal systems and our customers, while helping shape the security foundation of one of the most innovative developer platforms in the industry. We’re looking for individuals who are passionate about building secure infrastructure, scaling modern cloud-native systems, and fostering a strong security culture across engineering.
What You’ll Do- Partner with platform and engineering teams to integrate security into the design, deployment, and operation of infrastructure and cloud services.
- Conduct threat modeling and risk assessments of infrastructure components (Kubernetes, Terraform, networking, IAM).
- Drive improvements in infrastructure-as-code security, including Terraform, Kubernetes manifests, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Contribute to system architecture and execution with a focus on unblocking security needs in distributed systems and related development pipelines.
- Implement and manage container and Kubernetes security controls, auditing, and runtime protection.
- Act as a security advocate, helping build a culture of secure design and operation across the company.
- Deeply understand how to leverage Temporal’s platform to power infrastructure at scale.
- Participate in the on-call rotation.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 8+ years in cloud infrastructure and security experience.
- Coding experience in languages such as Go, Java, or similar.
- Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), with an understanding of how to optimize for security, cost, performance, and reliability.
- Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and container security best practices.
- Experience securing infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes YAML) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of encryption, authentication, and secure communication protocols.
- Familiarity with tools for infrastructure/cloud security (CSPM, SAST/DAST/SCA, container scanners, IaC linters).
- Ability to clearly explain complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proficiency in at least one modern language (Python or Go preferred).
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, self-directed environment.
- Distributed computing and related vulnerability experience
- Writing concurrent code
- Open Source automation or automation projects
- Azure Cloud Experience
- AI security knowledge
- The estimated pay range for this role is $190,000 - $250,000, depending on qualifications and location.
- 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.
