Platform Engineer – Temporal Cloud & Workflows

Information Technology Senior Management Forum; Bloomington (IL); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual raise & bonus

Health coverage

Tuition assistance

Fertility assistance

Generous time off

Job summary

State Farm is seeking a Software Engineer to help build and evolve the Temporal Platform, an enterprise workflow orchestration platform. You will develop reusable platform services, SDKs, and integrations that empower hundreds of product teams to build resilient, scalable workflows while following security and engineering standards.

The role blends software engineering, platform engineering, cloud technologies, and DevOps practices to improve developer experience and accelerate delivery across

Qualifications

• Experience developing software using one of the following: Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, or another modern programming language.
• Understanding of object-oriented design, distributed systems, and API development.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing.
• Experience using Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain reusable platform services and capabilities built on Temporal Cloud.
• Develop SDKs, libraries, templates, and reference implementations that simplify adoption of the Temporal platform.
• Partner with application teams to design reliable, long-running workflows and integrate existing applications with Temporal.
• Build automation that improves developer productivity, platform reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Design and implement observability solutions, including metrics, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing.
• Help establish enterprise standards, best practices, and governance for workflow development.
• Collaborate with cloud engineering, security, architecture, and product teams to deliver secure, scalable platform capabilities.
• Investigate production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term improvements.
• Contribute to platform roadmaps, technical documentation, and developer education.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Go

Python

REST APIs

Cloud platforms

Git & CI/CD

Distributed systems

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

Temporal Cloud

Camunda

AWS Step Functions

Azure Durable Functions

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Job description

State Farm is seeking a Software Engineer to help build and evolve the Temporal Platform, an enterprise workflow orchestration platform. You will develop reusable platform services, SDKs, and integrations that empower hundreds of product teams to build resilient, scalable workflows while following security and engineering standards.

The role blends software engineering, platform engineering, cloud technologies, and DevOps practices to improve developer experience and accelerate delivery across