Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Foundations

Temporal Technologies; United States; On-site; USD 141,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Senior Software Infrastructure Engineer to influence technical strategy and drive execution across cloud orchestration, networking, and observability. You will own critical systems to reduce costs and scale in a cloud-first environment.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, and security teams to ensure secure, scalable infrastructure while shaping long-term roadmaps and driving engineering velocity.

Qualifications

• Experience contributing to cross-team efforts on cloud, compute, networking and storage infrastructure.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Ability to drive alignment across an organization and contribute to long-term roadmaps.
• Demonstrated ability to make system-level tradeoffs.
• At least 10 years coding experience (Go, Java, or other language) and concurrent code experience.
• Experience designing distributed systems and using concurrency primitives.
• Hands-on cloud provider experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Responsibilities

• Build systems that optimize cloud use and scale for expansion.
• Contribute to system architecture and execution.
• Co-author roadmaps establishing the vision for infrastructure scalability, reliability, and engineering velocity.
• Maintain and foster a culture of engineering and operational excellence.
• Develop partnerships across engineering and product teams.
• Collaborate across teams to keep roadmaps aligned.
• Perform design reviews with a focus on infrastructure scalability and reliability.
• Partner with Security to build ‘secure by default’ systems.
• Engage with stakeholders and customers to understand requirements and enable business.
• Investigate how Temporal’s software powers infrastructure at scale.
• Understand Temporal's customer needs that drive infrastructure design decisions.
• Share design principles for reliable systems at scale.
• Learn and help others grow.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems design

Concurrency programming

Go/Java coding

Cross-team collaboration

System-level tradeoffs

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

We have an opening for a Senior Software Infrastructure Engineer in our Infrastructure team focused on driving technical strategy, alignment and execution of projects across compute, networking, cloud orchestration, and observability. This is an opportunity to join an engineering team focused on improving the scalability and reliability of Temporal’s core infrastructure. In this role, you will be the SME and build critical systems to identify and reduce costs as we optimize for scale in the cloud.

What You'll Do

Invent

• Build systems that optimize cloud use and scale for expansion.
• Contribute to system architecture and execution.
• Co-author roadmaps establishing the vision for infrastructure scalability, reliability, and engineering velocity.
• Continue to maintain and foster a culture of engineering and operational excellence.

Own

• Develop effective partnerships across engineering and product teams.
• Collaborate across teams to keep roadmaps aligned.
• Perform design reviews for multiple projects with a focus on infrastructure scalability and reliability.
• Partner with Security to build ‘secure by default’ systems.
• Engage with stakeholders and customers to help understand their requirements and enable their business.

Learn

• Investigate and understand the ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power infrastructure at scale.
• Get educated as to Temporal's customer needs that drive infrastructure design decisions.

Collaborate

• Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale.
• Learn and help others get better while you grow.

What You'll Bring

• Experience contributing to complex cross-team engineering efforts focused on cloud, compute, networking and storage infrastructure.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• You are comfortable driving alignment across an organization and contributing to long-term roadmaps.
• Demonstrated ability to make system-level tradeoffs.
• At least 10 years coding experience (Go, Java, or other applicable language) and experience writing concurrent code.
• Experience designing distributed systems and using concurrency primitives.
• Deep experience in at least one infrastructure and familiarity with adjacencies.
• Hands‑on experience with one or more cloud providers, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

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.

Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.

Compensation Range: $140.8K - $231K