Cloud Platform Foundations Engineer: HA/DR & Automation

Temporal Technologies

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 141,000 - 231,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Temporal Technologies in Seattle, WA, is seeking a backend-focused engineer to strengthen the Temporal Cloud platform. You will own systems that impact revenue, reliability, and scale, collaborating with product managers to automate critical operations and improve multi-tenant control planes.

You will design and operate systems spanning HA/DR, deployment automation, and CI/CD pipelines, leveraging Go and Kubernetes. The role emphasizes reliability balanced with rapid iteration and mentorship.

Qualifications

Backend engineering experience with cloud/infrastructure.
Experience on a control plane for cloud-based microservices.
Background building or operating multi-tenant SaaS applications.
Familiarity with density-oriented cloud provider architectures.
Strong PostgreSQL experience.
Track record designing for high availability.

Responsibilities

High Availability & DR—enabling continuous regional failover and improving platform resilience.
Control Plane Automation—Automating operations to improve reliability and developer efficiency.
Database Performance and Optimization: Our data layer is scaling beyond its current limits. We need someone who can scale it by orders of magnitude while holding the line on latency, reliability, and availability.
Deployment Plane: As our deploy frequency and engineering headcount both climb, we own redesigning the path from commit to production, drawing on strong infrastructure, deployment tooling, and systems design expertise.
CI/CD for Control Plane — Building reliable pipelines for safer rollouts, faster iteration, and better test coverage.