# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

**Company:** [Temporal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/temporal)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $260k – $325k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Microservices, AWS, GCP, Azure, Performance Tuning, Concurrency, Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Go
**Posted:** 2026-03-18

> Designs and implements large-scale public cloud infrastructure, builds complex distributed systems and microservices. Requires 10+ years experience, expert skills in performance tuning, concurrency, multiple cloud providers like AWS/GCP/Azure, and graduate degree or equivalent.

## Job Description

## Requirements

- 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.

## Compensation

- Estimated pay range: **$260,000 - $325,000** depending on experience and location.
- Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

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