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Staff Developer Success Engineer - East

170k – 215kSeattle, WACustomer SuccessRemote9+ YOE
Summary

Staff Developer Success Engineer supporting developers with cloud infrastructure, debugging distributed systems, and building observability solutions. Requires 9+ years experience with Kubernetes, Python/Java/Go, and customer-facing technical 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 expertise in container orchestration, networking, and observability
  • Learn from complex, real-world customer use cases
  • Work with Go, Python, and Java for infrastructure automation, resilience engineering, and performance tuning

Be a passionate problem solver:

  • Debug complex infrastructure issues and optimize cloud performance for Temporal users
  • Develop observability solutions using Grafana and Prometheus
  • Improve networking including load balancing, DNS, ingress/egress
  • Automate infrastructure operations using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Independently drive technical solutions including debugging production issues and 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 and develop self-service infrastructure solutions
  • Serve as a bridge between developers and infrastructure

What You'll Bring

  • 9+ years of experience as a developer
  • Fluency in one or more of: Python, Java, Golang, TypeScript
  • Experience deploying and managing medium to large-scale architectures (Kubernetes or Docker)
  • Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana) and troubleshooting performance/availability issues
  • Minimum 1 year experience in an internal or external customer-facing role
  • Experience working with or as part of remote teams
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to Have

  • Previous customer-facing experience (professional services consultant, solutions architect, customer engineer)
  • Experience with security certificate management and implementation
  • Experience with EKS, GKE, OpenTracing, Terraform, Ansible, CDK
  • Ability to translate use cases into Temporal design decisions and architecture best practices

Compensation & Benefits

  • Estimated pay range: $170,000 - $215,000
  • Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
  • 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
  • $3,600/year Work from Home Meals
  • $1,800/year Professional Enrichment
  • $1,200/year Lifestyle Spending Account
  • $1,000/year In-Home Office Setup
  • $74/month Internet reimbursement
  • Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
Skills
PythonJavaGoTypeScriptKubernetesDockerPrometheusGrafanaTerraformAWSGCPObservabilityNetworkingInfrastructure as Code
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