Senior Software Engineer, Compute – Temporal Cloud

Temporal Technologies

Senior Software Engineer building managed compute primitives for Temporal Cloud solutions at Temporal Technologies. Focusing on performance, scalability, and seamless developer experiences.

Posted 5/11/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $176,000 - $237,600 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoKubernetesOpen Source

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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.
Nice to have: Experience with IAM/security boundaries for cross-account execution models.
Nice to have: Having built Kubernetes controllers / CRDs or heterogeneous worker fleet operations.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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!

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Hard Skills & Tools

distributed systemsmulti-tenant platform servicesAPI designcloud infrastructureKubernetes controllersCRDsconcurrencyperformancereliabilityfailure-mode thinking

Soft Skills

written communicationtradeoff thinkingtechnical leadershipmentorshipinfluenceoperabilityincident responseownership of outcomesstrong reviewsdesign documentation