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Staff Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud)

Build and operate distributed systems and multi-tenant platform services for Temporal Cloud, owning design, implementation, production operations, SLOs, and incident response. Requires strong systems fundamentals and experience shipping platform primitives.

212k – 286k/yr
Remote7+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

What you bring

  • 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.

Compensation

The estimated pay range for this role is $212,000 - $286,000 depending on experience and location. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets.

U.S. 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!

Skills

Distributed Systemsmulti-tenant platformsConcurrencyPerformance Optimizationreliability engineeringKubernetesGoIAMCloud InfrastructureslosIncident Response
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