Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — HA/DR & Automation

Temporal; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal is seeking a Backend Engineer for Cloud Platform Foundations to build and operate the core infrastructure behind Temporal Cloud, focusing on reliability, scalability, and automation. You’ll own high availability, control plane tooling, and the multi-tenant platform that powers customer deployments.

Collaborating with engineers and product managers, you’ll optimize the data tier using PostgreSQL and modern storage, design safer CI/CD pipelines, and deliver durable tools that let

Qualifications

• Backend engineering with cloud/infrastructure focus.
• Experience on a control plane team for cloud-based microservices.
• Background building multi-tenant SaaS applications.
• Strong PostgreSQL experience.
• CLI and DevOps fluency.

Responsibilities

• High Availability & Disaster Recovery — enabling continuous regional failover.
• Control Plane Automation — automating operations for reliability.
• Database performance and optimization — scale while maintaining latency.
• Deployment plane redesign from commit to production.
• CI/CD for control plane — reliable pipelines.

Skills

Backend engineering

Cloud infra

Ops exposure

Multi-tenant SaaS

PostgreSQL

Go

CI/CD tooling

Kubernetes

High availability

Education

BS in CS or related

Tools

Terraform provider

Kubernetes operator

PostgreSQL

Job description

Temporal is seeking a Backend Engineer for Cloud Platform Foundations to build and operate the core infrastructure behind Temporal Cloud, focusing on reliability, scalability, and automation. You’ll own high availability, control plane tooling, and the multi-tenant platform that powers customer deployments.

Collaborating with engineers and product managers, you’ll optimize the data tier using PostgreSQL and modern storage, design safer CI/CD pipelines, and deliver durable tools that let