Senior Compute Platform Engineer — Cloud Autoscaling

Temporal Technologies; United States; On-site; USD 176,000 - 237,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays

100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, D,

Vision

AD&D, LT & ST Disability, Life Ins.

Empower 401K Plan

Learning & Development perks

WFH Meals

Internet Stipend

Job summary

Temporal Technologies seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud) to build and scale compute primitives that power workers and execution systems across Temporal Cloud.

You will design self-optimizing autoscaling, ensure multi-tenant safety, and drive reliability with observability. Join a mission-driven team delivering world-class open-source platform components for developers.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building distributed systems or multi-tenant platform services (design, implementation, and production operations).
• Strong systems fundamentals: concurrency, performance, reliability, and failure-mode thinking.
• A record of shipping platform primitives used by other engineers/customers (APIs, control planes, data planes).
• Comfort owning outcomes: SLOs, incident response, and improving on-call quality over time.
• Excellent written communication and crisp tradeoff thinking. (Go experience is a plus; judgment matters most.)

Responsibilities

• Create new managed compute primitives that feel first-class in Temporal Cloud: crisp abstractions, clean APIs, and an extension story across compute providers.
• Design self-optimizing autoscaling systems (signals, backstops, debouncing, guardrails) that scale worker fleets safely and predictably.
• Define the Open Source Server <-> Cloud boundary for compute capabilities, keeping the architecture cohesive and maintainable.
• Architect, build, and operate services on the hot path of task execution where performance and correctness are customer-visible.
• Deliver real-world cloud integrations (e.g., customer-account execution): IAM boundaries, secure credentials handling, networking constraints, quotas, and failure modes.
• Make operability a feature: SLOs, tracing/metrics, load and failure testing, incident reviews, and continuous hardening.
• Ship end-to-end: API design, rollout strategy, backwards compatibility, and long-term maintenance.

Skills

Distributed systems

Multi-tenant platforms

Concurrency

Performance

APIs

Go language

Job description

Temporal Technologies seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud) to build and scale compute primitives that power workers and execution systems across Temporal Cloud.

You will design self-optimizing autoscaling, ensure multi-tenant safety, and drive reliability with observability. Join a mission-driven team delivering world-class open-source platform components for developers.