Temporal Technologies

Staff Software Engineer, Compute – Temporal Cloud

Temporal Technologies

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $210,000 - $265,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Create new managed compute primitives that feel first-class in Temporal Cloud: crisp abstractions, clean APIs, and an extension story across compute providers.
  • Design self-optimizing autoscaling systems (signals, backstops, debouncing, guardrails) that scale worker fleets safely and predictably.
  • Define the Open Source Server ↔ Cloud boundary for compute capabilities, keeping the architecture cohesive and maintainable.
  • Architect, build, and operate services on the hot path of task execution where performance and correctness are customer-visible.
  • Deliver real-world cloud integrations (e.g., customer-account execution): IAM boundaries, secure credentials handling, networking constraints, quotas, and failure modes.
  • Make operability a feature: SLOs, tracing/metrics, load and failure testing, incident reviews, and continuous hardening.
  • Ship end-to-end: API design, rollout strategy, backwards compatibility, and long-term maintenance.
  • Raise the bar through design docs, strong reviews, pragmatic technical leadership, and mentorship.
  • Lead through influence across teams (Server, SDKs, Security, Control Plane) to land coherent platform changes.

Requirements

  • 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).
  • Comfort owning outcomes: SLOs, incident response, and improving on-call quality over time.
  • Excellent written communication and crisp tradeoff thinking. (Go experience is a plus; judgment matters most.)
  • Nice to have: Experience building cloud infrastructure platforms, Experience with IAM/security boundaries for cross-account execution models, Having built Kubernetes controllers / CRDs or heterogeneous worker fleet operations.
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!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
distributed systemsmulti-tenant platform servicesAPI designcloud integrationsKubernetes controllersCRDsautoscaling systemsperformance optimizationincident responseSLOs
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentorshipwritten communicationtradeoff thinkinginfluence across teams