Senior Software Engineer, Compute - Cloud Platform

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

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Job summary

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud) to advance durable execution across cloud environments. You will build and operate compute primitives, design autoscaling, and define boundaries between open source server and managed cloud capabilities.

The role emphasizes scalable, multi-tenant platform work, with strong focus on performance, reliability, and observability. Collaboration across teams and mentorship are key aspects of this role.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building distributed systems or multi-tenant platform services.
• Strong systems fundamentals: concurrency, performance, reliability, and failure-mode thinking.
• Experience shipping platform primitives used by engineers/customers (APIs, control/data planes).
• Comfort owning outcomes: SLOs, incident response, and improving on-call quality over time.

Responsibilities

• Invent: create new managed compute primitives for Temporal Cloud with clean APIs and extension across providers.
• Invent: design self-optimizing autoscaling systems for scaling worker fleets safely.
• Invent: define the Open Source Server and Cloud boundary for compute capabilities.
• Own: architect, build, and operate services on the hot path of task execution with performance and correctness.
• Own: deliver real-world cloud integrations including IAM boundaries, credentials handling, networking constraints, quotas, failure modes.
• Own: make operability a feature with SLOs, tracing, metrics, load testing, incidents, and hardening.
• Teach: raise the bar with design docs, reviews, and technical leadership.
• Teach: lead across Server, SDKs, Security, and Control Plane to land coherent changes.

Skills

Distributed systems

Multi-tenant platforms

SLOs and incident response

Written communication

Tradeoff thinking

Go experience (nice to have)

Tools

Kubernetes controllers

CRDs

Job description

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud) to advance durable execution across cloud environments. You will build and operate compute primitives, design autoscaling, and define boundaries between open source server and managed cloud capabilities.

The role emphasizes scalable, multi-tenant platform work, with strong focus on performance, reliability, and observability. Collaboration across teams and mentorship are key aspects of this role.