Temporal Technologies is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure organization. You will drive the technical vision, set architecture standards, and execute complex, high-leverage projects across cloud compute, traffic, security, and reliability, owning the technical design and implementation of systems powering Temporal Cloud.
What You'll Do
- Define and execute the long-term architectural strategy for our multi-cloud compute and traffic platforms.
- Lead hands-on implementation for critical infrastructure projects, focusing on reliability, system automation and performance at scale.
- Develop multi-year technical roadmaps establishing vision for infrastructure scalability, reliability, security, and engineering velocity.
- Maintain a culture of engineering and operational excellence.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship of engineers through design reviews and code contributions.
- Maintain end-to-end technical stewardship for your systems, ensuring execution aligns with architectural vision and best practices.
- Act as a key technical advisor to Engineering Leadership and Product Management, influencing the strategic direction of Temporal Cloud infrastructure.
- Drive cross-team collaboration to align architectural roadmaps and drive adoption of best practices.
- Participate and lead design reviews for projects across Infrastructure (Developer Productivity) with a focus on automation, infrastructure, scalability, and reliability.
- Partner with Security to build ‘secure by default’ systems.
- Engage with key customers to help understand their deep technical requirements and enable their business with platform capabilities.
- Own the reliability of systems under your technical ownership.
- Ensure team members have clarity on the technical vision, priorities, and the tools and processes needed to meet shipping deadlines.
- Teach design principles for building reliable, secure, and scalable systems.
- Grow others via technical mentorship, architectural guidance, and driving the engineering excellence bar.
- Learn ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power infrastructure at scale.
- Learn customer needs that drive infrastructure design and architectural decisions.
What We're Looking For
- Graduate degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Expert-level design and coding skills with deep knowledge of performance tuning, concurrency, and distributed systems architecture.
- Extensive experience designing and implementing large-scale public cloud infrastructure.
- Excellent technical leadership and impact—at least 10 years of experience as a Software Engineer, with significant time spent operating at the Senior/Staff IC level.
- Deep experience in building and leading the development of complex distributed software systems and microservices for a cloud infrastructure organization.
- Hands-on expertise with multiple cloud providers, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Superior collaboration skills and experience driving technical alignment across an organization and drafting long-term technical roadmaps.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and a willingness to communicate complex solutions and results to all levels of the organization.
Team & Environment
You will be a senior technical leader within the Infrastructure organization at Temporal.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $260,000 - $325,000 + equity: Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
- 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
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
- $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
- $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment)
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
Work Mode
This role is open to candidates globally.
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
