Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Capacity

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead the Cloud Capacity team, driving scalable, efficient, and reliable infrastructure for our customers’ workloads. You’ll influence provisioning, pricing, and autoscaling strategies alongside product and finance leaders.

Bring 7+ years building production software in Go/Java, strong cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure), and hands-on Kubernetes expertise to optimize cost and performance at scale.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in large-scale infrastructure spanning cloud compute, storage, and networking.
• Strong product and operational intuition for cloud costs, utilization, and forecasting.
• 7+ years building production software in Go, Java, or similar languages.
• Hands-on with container orchestration technologies and related tooling.
• Ability to influence executives and finance through clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical vision and roadmap for Temporal’s Cloud Capacity systems with leadership alignment.
• Design and implement infrastructure to track resource utilization, forecast consumption, and automate capacity planning at scale.
• Lead development of a resource manager that optimizes infrastructure efficiency based on usage and costs.
• Collaborate with Product, Cloud Infrastructure, and Finance on provisioning, pricing, and scaling decisions.
• Guide long-term strategy for autoscaling, workload isolation, and multi-tenant performance.

Skills

Cloud capacity planning

Distributed systems design

Cross-functional collaboration

Forecasting and analytics

Go/Java development

Cloud cost management

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

SUMMARY

The Cloud Capacity team plays a critical role in ensuring the Temporal Cloud is scalable, efficient, and reliable for our customers’ most important workloads. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll lead high-impact initiatives to build systems that intelligently manage and forecast resource needs, directly influencing our infrastructure efficiency, customer experience, and platform cost strategy.

What You’ll Do

• Drive the technical vision and roadmap for Temporal’s Cloud Capacity systems in partnership with engineering and product leadership.
• Design and implement infrastructure to track resource utilization, forecast consumption, and support automated capacity planning at scale.
• Lead development of a resource manager that optimizes infrastructure efficiency based on usage trends, cost insights, and evolving customer needs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Cloud Infrastructure, and Finance to inform business-critical decisions around provisioning, pricing, and scaling.
• Guide long-term strategy to support intelligent autoscaling, workload isolation, and predictable performance in a multi-tenant cloud environment.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience contributing to large-scale infrastructure efforts spanning cloud compute, storage, and networking systems.
• Strong product and operational intuition around managing cloud costs, utilization tracking, and workload forecasting.
• A track record of designing distributed systems and services in a production cloud environment (preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes) and the surrounding ecosystem.
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills—you influence through clarity, and you bring others along for the journey.
• Comfortable aligning cross-functional stakeholders on complex infrastructure problems, including executives and finance partners.
• 7+ years of experience building production software using Go, Java, or similar languages.

Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.

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