Temporal Technologies

Staff Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud)

United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$212k-$286kDetected 139 days ago

Distributed SystemsCloud PlatformsKubernetesTemporalAPI DevelopmentIncident ResponseLeadershipCommunication

About the role

Staff 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.
If you've built autoscaling systems, multi-tenant platforms, or cloud infrastructure, you'll find a lot to love here.

Comfort owning outcomes: SLOs, incident response, and improving on-call quality over time.
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.
The estimated pay range for this role is $212,000 - $286,000 depending on experience and location.
Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
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.

Experience with IAM/security boundaries for cross-account execution models.
Having built Kubernetes controllers / CRDs or heterogeneous worker fleet operations,
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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.
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Excellent written communication and crisp tradeoff thinking. (Go experience is a plus

Staff Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud)
Temporal powers durable execution for the world's most demanding AI and enterprise systems.
scaling decisions, isolation boundaries, multi-tenant safety, and production-grade observability.
Define the Open Source Server ↔ Cloud boundary for compute capabilities, keeping the architecture cohesive and maintainable.

The estimated pay range for this role is $212,000 - $286,000 depending on experience and location.

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