Senior Software Engineer
Remote
United States, Canada
$180,000 - $225,000/yearly
Senior Level
Top Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Unlimited paid time off
401(k) retirement plan
About the role
Who you are
- The Temporal Cloud Foundations group is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with deep experience building reliable and scalable distributed systems in production
- This role is ideal for engineers who are highly technical, collaborative, and eager to take ownership in building infrastructure for a hyper-growth company
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years working on scalable distributed systems in production
- Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consensus, concurrency, fault tolerance, and multi-threading
- Proficiency in writing concurrent code in a language like Go, Java, or similar
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating production systems in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Track record of driving projects from concept through design, implementation, launch, and ongoing operations
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in small, collaborative, high-ownership teams
- Experience mentoring or leading engineers, and contributing to architectural decisions
- Experience optimizing and tuning distributed systems for performance and cost efficiency
- Prior exposure to building components of cloud control planes or enterprise-scale infrastructure
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and modern cloud-native tooling
- Contributions to open source distributed systems or infrastructure projects
What the job involves
- In this role, you’ll lead the design, development, and improvement of the infrastructure that powers the Temporal Cloud Platform
- You’ll partner closely with teammates and cross-functional stakeholders to drive architecture, guide technical trade-offs, and operate services that support our customers at scale
- This is a unique opportunity to shape the foundation of our platform while gaining deep expertise with the Temporal open source server and our cloud services
- Lead the design and implementation of features for our Cloud Operational API, Temporal Workflows, Enterprise Features, and data pipelines
- Drive architectural discussions, setting direction for the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of our services
- Build and advocate for a strong developer experience for Temporal Cloud customers
- Make and communicate practical technical trade-offs that balance customer needs, reliability, and system performance
- Take ownership across the lifecycle of services—from design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and operations
- Improve and scale our tools (operational tools, CI/CD, deployment systems), processes, and engineering practices
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers on the team, raising the overall technical bar
Benefits
- Medical/Dental (including ortho)/Vision Benefits
- Unlimited Time-Off
- 401(k)
- AD&D, Long and Short- term disability
- Life Insurance
- HSA + Employer Contribution
- Employee Assistance Program
- Company Issued Hardware + $1,000 Annually Home Office Setup
- Remote-First
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
United States, Canada
$180,000 - $225,000/yearly
Senior Level
Top Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Unlimited paid time off
401(k) retirement plan
About the role
Who you are
- The Temporal Cloud Foundations group is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with deep experience building reliable and scalable distributed systems in production
- This role is ideal for engineers who are highly technical, collaborative, and eager to take ownership in building infrastructure for a hyper-growth company
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years working on scalable distributed systems in production
- Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consensus, concurrency, fault tolerance, and multi-threading
- Proficiency in writing concurrent code in a language like Go, Java, or similar
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating production systems in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Track record of driving projects from concept through design, implementation, launch, and ongoing operations
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in small, collaborative, high-ownership teams
- Experience mentoring or leading engineers, and contributing to architectural decisions
- Experience optimizing and tuning distributed systems for performance and cost efficiency
- Prior exposure to building components of cloud control planes or enterprise-scale infrastructure
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and modern cloud-native tooling
- Contributions to open source distributed systems or infrastructure projects
What the job involves
- In this role, you’ll lead the design, development, and improvement of the infrastructure that powers the Temporal Cloud Platform
- You’ll partner closely with teammates and cross-functional stakeholders to drive architecture, guide technical trade-offs, and operate services that support our customers at scale
- This is a unique opportunity to shape the foundation of our platform while gaining deep expertise with the Temporal open source server and our cloud services
- Lead the design and implementation of features for our Cloud Operational API, Temporal Workflows, Enterprise Features, and data pipelines
- Drive architectural discussions, setting direction for the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of our services
- Build and advocate for a strong developer experience for Temporal Cloud customers
- Make and communicate practical technical trade-offs that balance customer needs, reliability, and system performance
- Take ownership across the lifecycle of services—from design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and operations
- Improve and scale our tools (operational tools, CI/CD, deployment systems), processes, and engineering practices
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers on the team, raising the overall technical bar
Benefits
- Medical/Dental (including ortho)/Vision Benefits
- Unlimited Time-Off
- 401(k)
- AD&D, Long and Short- term disability
- Life Insurance
- HSA + Employer Contribution
- Employee Assistance Program
- Company Issued Hardware + $1,000 Annually Home Office Setup
- Remote-First