Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Temporal Technologies powers durable execution for the world’s most demanding AI and enterprise systems. The Staff Software Engineer will be responsible for creating managed compute primitives and designing self-optimizing autoscaling systems within Temporal Cloud, ensuring performance and correctness in task execution.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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.)
- 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
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
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