Go Backend Engineer II, Cloud Platform

Temporal; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Cloud Applications team. You will help design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines for Temporal Cloud across Namespaces, Audit Logs, and Export.

You’ll collaborate with engineers, product managers, and partner teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure cloud features while improving developer experience.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production backend systems in a cloud environment.
• Proficiency in Go or another applicable backend or systems language.
• Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, concurrency basics, testing, and debugging.
• Working knowledge of distributed-systems concepts such as reliability, fault tolerance, consistency, scaling, and failure handling.
• Experience with databases, data pipelines, messaging systems, or object storage.
• Ability to take a scoped problem, break it into smaller tasks, implement a solution end-to-end, and incorporate feedback.
• An operational mindset, including familiarity with logging, metrics, tracing, deployment, and production troubleshooting.
• Comfort collaborating across teams and communicating progress, risks, and technical tradeoffs clearly.
• A commitment to correctness, maintainability, and leaving systems better than you found them.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and ship well-scoped features and improvements for Temporal Cloud with support from teammates.
• Build and improve services that support namespace provisioning, configuration, scalability, and reliability.
• Develop data pipelines that process high-volume usage and operational data across multiple tenants.
• Make thoughtful engineering tradeoffs with guidance, balancing data freshness, query cost, tenant isolation, reliability, and operational complexity.
• Improve service operability through tests, instrumentation, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, incident response, and production debugging.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to understand requirements and deliver scoped projects safely.
• Improve developer and customer experience through automation, better tooling, and incremental product improvements.

Skills

Cloud backend

Go programming

CS fundamentals

Distributed systems

Databases

Debugging

On-call support

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Go

PostgreSQL

Redshift

Kinesis

Firehose

S3

Google Cloud Storage

Azure Blob Storage

Kubernetes

Temporal

Job description

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Cloud Applications team. You will help design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines for Temporal Cloud across Namespaces, Audit Logs, and Export.

You’ll collaborate with engineers, product managers, and partner teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure cloud features while improving developer experience.