Temporal

Temporal

Senior Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud)

United States - Remote Opportunity · Senior · Part-time

Sponsorship not specified$176k-$238kDetected 21 hours ago
Distributed SystemsCloud PlatformsKubernetesTemporalAPI DevelopmentIncident ResponseLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • We're curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
  • Senior Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud) Temporal powers durable execution for the world's most demanding AI and enterprise systems.
  • Our work sits at the intersection of control plane + data plane: scaling decisions, isolation boundaries, multi-tenant safety, and production-grade observability.

Requirements

  • Comfort owning outcomes: SLOs, incident response, and improving on-call quality over time.
  • Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
  • Significant experience building distributed systems or multi-tenant platform services (design, implementation, and production operations).
  • Strong systems fundamentals: concurrency, performance, reliability, and failure-mode thinking.
  • A record of shipping platform primitives used by other engineers/customers (APIs, control planes, data planes).
  • Nice to have
  • Experience building cloud infrastructure platforms.

Nice to have

  • Experience with IAM/security boundaries for cross-account execution models.
  • Having built Kubernetes controllers / CRDs or heterogeneous worker fleet operations.
  • Excellent written communication and crisp tradeoff thinking. (Go experience is a plus
  • judgment matters most.)

Skills

  • scaling decisions, isolation boundaries, multi-tenant safety, and production-grade observability.
  • See the "Compute team" link to read more --> Compute team - [new window opens]
  • Define the Open Source Server ↔ Cloud boundary for compute capabilities, keeping the architecture cohesive and maintainable.
  • Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Compensation

  • The estimated pay range for this role is $176,000 - $237,600.
  • Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets.

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)
  • 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.

Company info

  • 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. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer's toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.
  • Our values guide us -they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We're curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
  • Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
  • Senior Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud)
  • Temporal powers durable execution for the world's most demanding AI and enterprise systems.
  • The Compute team at Temporal makes that durability feel effortless by building the managed compute primitives that run workers and other execution systems across Temporal Cloud.
  • 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.
  • We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer's toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.
  • Our values guide us -they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact.
  • Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future.
  • If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
  • We're solving a hard platform problem: make compute transparent, elastic, safe-by-default, observable, and multi-cloud - without turning customers into infrastructure operators.
  • We build platform primitives that span a variety of execution environments (e.g., serverless-style runtimes, containerized fleets, and customer-controlled deployments).

Equal opportunity

  • 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.
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