Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Capacity

Temporal; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead Cloud Capacity initiatives, building scalable systems to forecast resource needs and optimize costs across our multi-tenant cloud.

You will collaborate with Product, Cloud Infrastructure, and Finance to align provisioning, pricing, and autoscaling, and you will guide long-term strategy for reliable, cost-efficient infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of production software experience.
• Experience building distributed systems in a production cloud environment.
• Experience with Go or Java or similar languages.
• Container orchestration experience (Kubernetes).
• Strong collaboration with product, finance, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision and roadmap for Cloud Capacity systems.
• Design infrastructure to track utilization, forecast consumption, and support automated capacity planning at scale.
• Lead development of a resource manager to optimize infrastructure efficiency.
• Collaborate with Product, Cloud Infrastructure, and Finance to inform provisioning, pricing, and scaling.
• Guide long-term strategy to support intelligent autoscaling, workload isolation, and predictable performance in a multi-tenant cloud environment.

Skills

Go/Java experience

Cloud capacity forecasting

Distributed systems design

Kubernetes experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Tools

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Job description

SummaryThe Cloud Capacity team plays a critical role in ensuring the the company 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 the company’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.

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