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Senior Developer Success Engineer

140k – 180kUnited StatesRemote6+ YOE
Summary

Senior Developer Success Engineer working directly with developers to debug infrastructure issues, optimize cloud performance, and enhance reliability for Temporal users. Requires 6+ years experience with Kubernetes, observability tools, and customer-facing roles.

About the role

What You'll Do

Be a keen learner:

  • Work with cloud-native, highly scalable infrastructure spanning AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and microservices
  • Gain deep expertise in container orchestration, networking, and observability
  • Learn from complex, real-world customer use cases
  • Stack includes Go, Python, and Java for infrastructure automation, resilience engineering, and performance tuning

Be a passionate problem solver:

  • Tackle scalability, reliability, and troubleshooting challenges in distributed systems
  • Work directly with developers to debug complex infrastructure issues, optimize cloud performance, and enhance reliability
  • Develop observability solutions (Grafana, Prometheus)
  • Improve networking (load balancing, DNS, ingress/egress)
  • Automate infrastructure operations (Terraform, IaC)
  • Independently drive technical solutions for debugging complex production issues or designing infrastructure best practices

Be a great communicator:

  • Engage directly with developers, engineering teams, and product teams
  • Provide solutions that enhance scalability, performance, and reliability
  • Influence platform improvements including enhancing observability tooling and developing self-service infrastructure solutions
  • Serve as a bridge between developers and infrastructure

What You'll Bring

  • 6+ years of experience as a developer, preferably fluent in one or more of: Python, Java, Golang, TypeScript
  • Experience with deployment and managing medium to large-scale architectures (e.g., Kubernetes or Docker)
  • Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana and troubleshooting performance and availability issues
  • Minimum of one year experience in an internal or external customer-facing role
  • Passion for helping others
  • Experience working with or as part of remote teams
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Seek to understand first, lead with data, and rely on facts

Nice to Have

  • Previous experience in customer-facing positions such as professional services consultant, solutions architect, customer engineer
  • Experience with security certificate management and implementation
  • Ability to understand use cases and translate them into Temporal design decisions and architecture best practices
  • Technologies: EKS, GKE, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTracing, Terraform/Ansible/CDK

Compensation

  • Estimated pay range: $140,000 - $180,000 based on experience and location
  • Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
  • Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation across several geographic markets

Benefits (Full-time employees)

  • Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
  • 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
  • AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance
  • Empower 401K Plan
  • Additional Perks: Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend
Skills
GoPythonJavaTypeScriptKubernetesDockerPrometheusGrafanaTerraformAWSGCPEKSGKEAnsibleOpenTracing
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