# Staff Software Engineer, DevProd (Infrastructure Observability)

**Company:** [Temporal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/temporal)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $212k – $286k/yr
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, SQL, AWS, GCP, ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos, Temporal, Distributed Systems, Observability, Data Streaming, Cloud Providers
**Posted:** 2026-04-29

> Leads design, development, and operations of scalable distributed systems for infrastructure observability in the Temporal ecosystem. Requires expertise in Go, Kubernetes, SQL, cloud platforms, and building resilient high-performance pipelines at scale.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do

### Build:
- Lead the end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle: goals & requirements solicitation, design & review, implementation, operationalization & deployment, support & maintenance.
- Lead feature design, review with stakeholders, iterate to incorporate feedback and drive consensus.
- Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and manage the software you develop.
- Provide appropriate test and production readiness coverage for unit, integration, and performance of your feature ownership area.

### Own:
- Set a high bar for technical excellence and take pride in the software you develop.
- Design and build multi-component, distributed systems that operate at scale.
- Investigate issues with a methodical approach to identify a root cause.
- Understand performance and reliability implications of design options at scale. Make related tradeoffs.
- Participate in the team’s on-call rotation.

### Learn:
- Expert-level knowledge of architecture and services of assigned domain. Strong command over all aspects of the **Temporal** ecosystem.
- Investigate and understand ways to best leverage **Temporal**'s own software to power our mission.
- Deeply understand the needs of **Temporal** internal developers and external customers, and leverage that knowledge for product development and feature design.

### Collaborate:
- Lead and mentor fellow team members.
- Participate in design reviews and contribute to design of other features.
- Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale.

## What You'll Bring
- User-first mindset. You're excited by the opportunity to empower others through tooling, and enjoy deeply internalizing user goals and use cases to build effective solutions.
- Motivated by impact. You are driven by a desire to make positive things happen.
- Strong opinions about tools and technology that are equally balanced by a pragmatic drive for impact.
- Ability to work in a self-directed manner in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

## Skills & Technologies
- Demonstrated ability to develop horizontally scalable, resilient, and high performance distributed systems in a production environment.
- Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting large scale, geographically distributed observability and/or high throughput data streaming/processing pipelines, or similar.
- Expert in one or more high-level programming languages, preferably **Go**.
- Expert-level **Kubernetes** skills.
- Expert-level query development skills, preferably **SQL**.
- Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers, preferably **AWS**, or **GCP**.
- Thorough understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking.
- Familiarity with best practices regarding monitoring, instrumenting, and configuring infrastructure.

## Compensation
- The estimated pay range for this role is **$212,000 - $286,200** depending on qualifications and location.
- This role is eligible to participate in **Temporal**'s equity plan.

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