# Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Growth

**Company:** [Temporal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/temporal)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $176k – $231k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Postgres, ClickHouse, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Amazon Kinesis, Kubernetes, Stripe, Salesforce, Temporal, Distributed Systems, Data Pipelines, Openmetrics
**Posted:** 2026-08-21

> Senior software engineer responsible for revenue-critical backend systems spanning account lifecycle management, metering, billing, integrations, and customer-facing usage transparency. The role requires strong distributed-systems experience, Go or comparable backend expertise, and operational ownership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end technical design and delivery for business-critical services supporting customer acquisition, onboarding, account lifecycle management, and revenue operations.
- Define architecture for high-throughput, fault-tolerant metering and billing pipelines, balancing correctness, latency, cost, and operability.
- Partner with Finance, RevOps, Sales, and Support to translate business needs into scalable, auditable systems.
- Build account lifecycle flows covering activation, expansion, billing, suspension, dunning, plan and SKU changes, and offboarding.
- Integrate and reconcile revenue data across CRM, support, analytics, BI, billing, and other business systems.
- Design customer-facing usage APIs, cost reporting, and billable-action metrics.
- Ensure data integrity, reliability, compliance, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and operational readiness.
- Improve developer and customer experience through automation, tooling, and platform improvements.
- Raise engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, and operational standards.
- Mentor engineers and support effective cross-functional execution.

## Requirements
- Significant experience designing and delivering production-grade backend systems, ideally in cloud environments, with ownership of architecture and operational outcomes.
- Strong proficiency in a systems or backend programming language; Go is preferred.
- Experience building and operating distributed systems, including concurrency, reliability, scaling, consistency, and failure handling.
- Practical understanding of data pipelines and storage systems such as PostgreSQL, Redshift, Kinesis, and S3-like systems.
- Experience integrating and reconciling third-party SaaS platforms, including idempotency, drift detection, and recovery from upstream inconsistencies.
- Experience with observability, incident response, performance tuning, on-call readiness, and continuous delivery.
- Ability to translate ambiguous cross-functional requirements into executable technical plans.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including design documentation and technical tradeoff discussions.
- Builder mindset focused on simplifying complex workflows, improving tooling, and maintaining systems.

## Technology
- **Language:** Go
- **Storage:** PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redshift, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage
- **Data processing:** Amazon Kinesis, Kinesis Data Firehose
- **Infrastructure:** Kubernetes
- **Billing and revenue:** Metronome, Stripe
- **Go-to-market integrations:** Salesforce, Segment, Pylon, Zapier, cloud marketplace APIs
- **Standards and frameworks:** OpenMetrics, FOCUS, Temporal

## Compensation and Benefits
- Estimated pay range: **$176,000–$231,000**.
- Eligible to participate in the company equity plan.
- Full-time benefits include unlimited PTO, 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 benefits.
- International benefits and paid time off vary by country.

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