Senior Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud)
Senior Software Engineer building distributed systems, multi-tenant platform services, and primitives (APIs, control/data planes) for Temporal Cloud. Requires strong fundamentals in concurrency, reliability, and production operations with ownership of SLOs and on-call.
About the job
What you bring
- Significant experience building distributed systems or multi-tenant platform services (design, implementation, and production operations).
- Strong systems fundamentals: concurrency, performance, reliability, and failure-mode thinking.
- A record of shipping platform primitives used by other engineers/customers (APIs, control planes, data planes).
- Comfort owning outcomes: SLOs, incident response, and improving on-call quality over time.
- Excellent written communication and crisp tradeoff thinking. (Go experience is a plus; judgment matters most.)
Nice to have
- Experience building cloud infrastructure platforms.
- Experience with IAM/security boundaries for cross-account execution models.
- Having built Kubernetes controllers / CRDs or heterogeneous worker fleet operations.
Compensation
The estimated pay range for this role is $176,000 - $237,600. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets.
Benefits
U.S. Benefits
- Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
- Empower 401K Plan
- Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
Skills
Distributed Systems, Go, Kubernetes, IAM, SLOs, Concurrency, APIs, Control Planes, Data Planes
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