Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform Foundations

Temporal; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal in Seattle is seeking backend engineers focused on cloud infrastructure to strengthen Temporal Cloud and its multi-tenant control plane. You will scale the data layer, automate operations, and improve developer experience across the platform.

You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to reduce blast radius, enhance resilience, and deliver safer CI/CD pipelines while striving for high availability and performance.

Qualifications

• Backend engineering experience with cloud/infrastructure focus.
• Experience on a control plane for cloud-based microservices.
• Background building or operating multi-tenant SaaS applications.
• Familiarity with density-oriented cloud provider architectures.
• Strong PostgreSQL (or similar) relational database experience.
• Track record designing for high availability and scalable compute/traffic.
• CLI and DevOps fluency.

Responsibilities

• High Availability & Disaster Recovery—enable continuous regional failover and resilience.
• Control Plane Automation—automate operations for reliability and efficiency.
• Database Performance and Optimization—scale data layer while managing latency and reliability.
• Deployment Plane—redesign path from commit to production with robust tooling.
• CI/CD for Control Plane—build pipelines for safe rollouts and better test coverage.

Skills

Backend engineering

Cloud/infrastructure

Control plane

Multi-tenant SaaS

CLI/DevOps

PostgreSQL

Job description

SUMMARY

The Cloud Platform Foundations team builds and operates the core infrastructure behind Temporal Cloud, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and automation. The team owns foundational systems including high availability and disaster recovery, control plane automation, resource and namespace management, and the customer-facing interfaces that shape how users integrate with the platform—from our APIs and CLI to the Terraform provider, SDKs, and Kubernetes operator.

In this role, you'll build systems that directly strengthen Temporal Cloud's resilience, performance, and developer experience. You'll work closely with engineers and product managers to automate critical operations, evolve our multi-tenant control plane, reduce blast radius, improve namespace density, and build safer CI/CD pipelines. If you enjoy solving ambiguous, high-leverage infrastructure problems and creating durable tools that help both customers and engineers move faster, we'd love to meet you.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• 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.

TECHNOLOGY STACK

• Primary Language: Go
• Data Storage: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redshift, S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage
• Data Processing: Kinesis, Firehose
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes
• Billing & Revenue: Metronome, Stripe
• Go-to-Market Integrations: Salesforce, Segment, Pylon, Zapier, cloud marketplace APIs
• Customer-Facing Standards: OpenMetrics, FOCUS
• Core Framework: Temporal (of course )

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

• High-impact ownership over systems tied directly to revenue, customer lifecycle, and platform scalability
• Collaborative engineering culture focused on quality, pragmatism, and measurable outcomes
• Exceptional technical colleagues and a feedback-rich environment
• Lean processes and autonomy without unnecessary bureaucracy
• Strong emphasis on reliability and operational excellence—balanced with rapid iteration
• A team that values mentorship, thoughtful design, and steady improvements that compound over time

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• 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.

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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