Develop and improve the infrastructure for the Temporal Cloud Platform, implement API features, optimize performance, and support the developer experience.
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 Software Engineer with experience building reliable and scalable distributed systems in production. In this role, you’ll help develop and improve the infrastructure that powers the Temporal Cloud Platform. You’ll work closely with teammates to design, build, and operate services that support our customers. This is a unique opportunity to gain experience with the Temporal open source server and our cloud services while contributing to the foundation of our platform. This role is ideal for early-career engineers who are curious, collaborative, and excited about building infrastructure for a hyper-growth company. [This is not an internal deployment role]
What You’ll Do
- Work with the team to design and implement features for our Cloud Operational API, Temporal Workflows, Enterprise Features and data pipelines.
- Help build a strong developer experience for Temporal Cloud customers.
- Contribute to short-term projects while supporting the team in shaping long-term plans.
- Make practical technical trade-offs that balance customer needs, reliability, and system performance.
- Take part in improving our tools (operational tool, CI/CD, Deployment), processes, and development practices.
- Develop production-ready systems with appropriate monitoring, alerts, and runbooks.
What You Bring to Us
- Experience working on scalable distributed systems in a production environment.
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts, including concurrency and multi-threading.
- Experience writing concurrent code in a language like Go, Java, or similar.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and/or building components of Cloud Control Planes.
- Interest in creating a great customer experience and representing user needs in technical discussions.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work well in small, collaborative teams.
- Experience contributing across the lifecycle of services, from design to ongoing operations.
What Is Good to Have
- Experience tuning and optimizing the performance of distributed systems.
- Exposure to operating cloud infrastructure in production environments.
- The estimated pay range for this role is $120,000 - $150,000 depending on experience and location.
- This role is 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
Cloud Infrastructure
Distributed Systems
Go
Java
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