The Senior Software Engineer will design, develop, and improve the infrastructure for Temporal Cloud Platform, focusing on scalable distributed systems, and mentoring team members.
Who We Are
Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. Our amazing user community provides us with real-time feedback and contributions to improve the developer experience everywhere.
Backed by top VC firms, we have built a team of professionals from various successful start-ups and well-known technology companies. Together, we collaborate cross-functionally, engage with and support our users to improve the developer experience, deliver world-class open-source software, and enhance our commercial SaaS platform.
Temporal is growing and working towards building the best community. We are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for helping developer communities, open-source software, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
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.
Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.
Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded.
U.S. Benefits
- 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!
International Benefits
- 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.
Additional Perks
- $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
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.
We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
GCP
Go
Java
Kubernetes
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