# Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure Foundations

**Company:** [Temporal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/temporal)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $212k – $286k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Go, Java, Distributed Systems, Concurrency, AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloud Infrastructure, Networking, Storage, Compute
**Posted:** 2026-04-14

> Designs and builds scalable cloud infrastructure systems focusing on compute, networking, storage, and distributed systems. Leads cross-functional efforts, mentors engineers, and optimizes for reliability and cost with 8+ years experience in Go/Java and cloud providers.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do

**Invent**
- Design and build systems that optimize cloud usage and scale for global expansion.
- Contribute to system architecture and execution with a focus on distributed systems.
- Co-author roadmaps, setting the vision for infrastructure scalability, reliability, and engineering velocity.
- Build reliable and scalable network, storage, and compute systems.
- Foster and maintain a culture of engineering and operational excellence.

**Own**
- Develop effective partnerships across engineering, security, and product teams to ensure alignment of infrastructure goals.
- Lead design reviews for projects, with a focus on system reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
- Partner with Security to ensure infrastructure is secure by default.
- Engage directly with stakeholders and customers to understand their requirements and enable their success.

**Learn**
- Deeply understand how to leverage Temporal's platform to power infrastructure at scale.
- Gain insights into customer needs and translate them into infrastructure design decisions.
- Explore new technologies and approaches to enhance infrastructure reliability and scalability.

**Collaborate**
- Share and advocate for design principles to build reliable systems at scale.
- Mentor and grow other engineers, fostering a culture of learning and collaboration.
- Drive alignment across teams, ensuring roadmaps and priorities remain connected to organizational goals.

## What You'll Bring

- Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional engineering efforts focused on cloud, compute, networking, and storage infrastructure.
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to drive alignment across diverse teams and stakeholders.
- A track record of contributing to long-term technical roadmaps and making thoughtful system-level tradeoffs.
- **At least 8+ years of coding experience** in languages such as **Go**, **Java**, or similar, with expertise in writing concurrent code.
- Strong experience designing **distributed systems** and utilizing concurrency primitives.
- Deep expertise in at least one infrastructure domain (e.g., **compute**, **networking**, **storage**) and familiarity with related domains.
- Hands-on experience with one or more **cloud providers** (**AWS**, **GCP**, **Azure**), with an understanding of how to optimize for cost, performance, and reliability.
- A passion for driving technical excellence, scalability, and operational reliability in cloud-based infrastructure.

## Compensation

**Estimated pay range: $212,000 - $286,000** depending on experience and location.  
Eligible for equity plan.

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