Staff Software Engineer - Test Systems & Tooling

Responsibilities

• Build production-like test environments and tooling for test cells that resemble production topology, configuration, and behavior.
• Develop workload-generation capabilities for multi-tenant, stress, load, and traffic-replay testing.
• Create repeatable failure-mode testing tools for latency, dependency faults, resource exhaustion, degraded-state recovery, and regional failures.
• Identify high-impact system-level testing gaps and implement repeatable continuous or release validation coverage.
• Build shared libraries, test harnesses, frameworks, and paved paths for system and integration testing.
• Mentor engineers and influence testing strategy through design documents, code reviews, and cross-team collaboration.
• Partner with Cloud/Infrastructure, Reliability, Release Engineering, and product teams to incorporate incident learnings into pre-production coverage and release pipelines.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building and operating production-quality platforms, infrastructure, developer tooling, or distributed systems.
• Demonstrated technical leadership of ambiguous, cross-team initiatives, including alignment and delivery of durable shared systems.
• Experience designing for observability, debuggability, and operational readiness, including metrics, logs, tracing, safe rollouts, and failure analysis.
• Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries.
• Strong written communication skills for design documents, testing strategy proposals, and scalable documentation.

Nice-to-Haves

• Chaos engineering, fault injection, workload replay or shadowing, performance testing, or multi-tenant test strategy.
• Experience building broadly used internal platforms, self-service environments, paved roads, or shared frameworks.
• Familiarity with engineering and system outcome metrics, including signal quality, coverage gaps, incident-to-coverage time, and adoption.

Compensation and Benefits

• Estimated pay range: $212,000–$278,250 depending on experience and location.
• Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
• Full-time benefits include unlimited paid time off, holidays, medical, dental and vision coverage, disability and life insurance, a 401(k) plan, learning and development support, lifestyle spending, home office setup, professional memberships, work-from-home meals, internet stipend, and wellness resources.
• Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other in-person collaboration.