Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — Foundations & Automation

Temporal Technologies; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal Technologies is seeking a backend-focused infrastructure engineer for the Cloud Platform Foundations team in Austin. You will own critical systems that underpin Temporal Cloud, focusing on reliability, scalability, and automation to empower developers and customers.

You’ll tackle HA/DR, control plane automation, and multi-tenant SaaS challenges, building safer CI/CD pipelines and high-performance data paths. This role emphasizes practical tooling and end-to-end ownership.

Qualifications

• Backend engineering experience with a cloud/infrastructure focus, ideally with some ops exposure — a blend of infra and database-driven systems.
• Experience on a control plane team for cloud-based microservices.
• Background building or operating multi-tenant SaaS applications.
• Familiarity with density-oriented cloud provider architectures.
• Strong Postgres (or similar relational database) experience.
• Track record designing for high availability, and managing compute and traffic at scale.
• Solid database chops, and a bias toward building rather than just configuring — you'd rather write the tool than click through one.
• CLI and DevOps fluency.
• Nice to Have - Exposure to data pipelining.

Responsibilities

• High Availability & Disaster Recovery (HA/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.

Skills

Backend engineering

Cloud infrastructure

Ops exposure

Multi-tenant SaaS

PostgreSQL

Tools

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Redshift

S3

GCS

Azure Blob Storage

Kinesis

Firehose

Job description

Temporal Technologies is seeking a backend-focused infrastructure engineer for the Cloud Platform Foundations team in Austin. You will own critical systems that underpin Temporal Cloud, focusing on reliability, scalability, and automation to empower developers and customers.

You’ll tackle HA/DR, control plane automation, and multi-tenant SaaS challenges, building safer CI/CD pipelines and high-performance data paths. This role emphasizes practical tooling and end-to-end ownership.