# Staff Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud)

**Company:** [Temporal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/temporal)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $212k – $286k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, multi-tenant platforms, Concurrency, Performance Optimization, reliability engineering, Kubernetes, Go, IAM, Cloud Infrastructure, slos, Incident Response
**Posted:** 2026-07-20

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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!

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