Software Engineer II, Cloud Applications

Temporal; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Cloud Applications team. You will help design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines for Temporal Cloud across Namespaces, Audit Logs, and Export.

You’ll collaborate with engineers, product managers, and partner teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure cloud features while improving developer experience.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production backend systems in a cloud environment.
• Proficiency in Go or another applicable backend or systems language.
• Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, concurrency basics, testing, and debugging.
• Working knowledge of distributed-systems concepts such as reliability, fault tolerance, consistency, scaling, and failure handling.
• Experience with databases, data pipelines, messaging systems, or object storage.
• Ability to take a scoped problem, break it into smaller tasks, implement a solution end-to-end, and incorporate feedback.
• An operational mindset, including familiarity with logging, metrics, tracing, deployment, and production troubleshooting.
• Comfort collaborating across teams and communicating progress, risks, and technical tradeoffs clearly.
• A commitment to correctness, maintainability, and leaving systems better than you found them.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and ship well-scoped features and improvements for Temporal Cloud with support from teammates.
• Build and improve services that support namespace provisioning, configuration, scalability, and reliability.
• Develop data pipelines that process high-volume usage and operational data across multiple tenants.
• Make thoughtful engineering tradeoffs with guidance, balancing data freshness, query cost, tenant isolation, reliability, and operational complexity.
• Improve service operability through tests, instrumentation, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, incident response, and production debugging.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to understand requirements and deliver scoped projects safely.
• Improve developer and customer experience through automation, better tooling, and incremental product improvements.

Skills

Cloud backend

Go programming

CS fundamentals

Distributed systems

Databases

Debugging

On-call support

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Go

PostgreSQL

Redshift

Kinesis

Firehose

S3

Google Cloud Storage

Azure Blob Storage

Kubernetes

Temporal

Job description

ROLE SUMMARY

We’re looking for a Software Engineer II to join the Cloud Applications team. This team builds and operates critical parts of the Temporal Cloud customer experience, including Namespaces https://docs.temporal.io/cloud/namespaces, Audit Logs https://docs.temporal.io/cloud/audit-logs, and Export https://docs.temporal.io/cloud/export. Namespaces are the core unit of isolation within Temporal Cloud, providing security boundaries, workflow management, unique identifiers, and dedicated gRPC endpoints. Audit Logs and Export give customers reliable access to the operational and compliance data they depend on. We’re looking for an engineer who is excited to learn these systems and contribute to their scalability, reliability, and developer experience. This is a hands-on role where you’ll collaborate with experienced engineers, product managers and partner teams to design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines while growing your distributed-systems expertise.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design, implement, test, and ship well-scoped features and improvements for Temporal Cloud with support from teammates.
• Build and improve services that support namespace provisioning, configuration, scalability, and reliability.
• Develop data pipelines that process high-volume usage and operational data across multiple tenants.
• Make thoughtful engineering tradeoffs with guidance, balancing data freshness, query cost, tenant isolation, reliability, and operational complexity.
• Improve service operability through tests, instrumentation, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, incident response, and production debugging.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to understand requirements and deliver scoped projects safely.
• Improve developer and customer experience through automation, better tooling, and incremental product improvements.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• Experience building and operating production backend systems in a cloud environment.
• Proficiency in Go or another applicable backend or systems language, with the ability to ramp up in an existing codebase.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, concurrency basics, testing, and debugging.
• Working knowledge of distributed-systems concepts such as reliability, fault tolerance, consistency, scaling, and failure handling.
• Experience with databases, data pipelines, messaging systems, or object storage.
• The ability to take a scoped problem, break it into smaller tasks, implement a solution end to end, and incorporate feedback.
• An operational mindset, including familiarity with logging, metrics, tracing, deployment, and production troubleshooting.
• Comfort collaborating across teams and communicating progress, risks, and technical tradeoffs clearly.
• A commitment to correctness, maintainability, and leaving systems better than you found them.

NICE TO HAVE

• 3+ years of work experience
• Experience with Go.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redshift, Kinesis, Firehose
• Experience with S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, or other object-storage systems.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience supporting on-call rotations, investigating incidents, or improving production observability.
• Familiarity with Temporal concepts—or a strong interest in learning the platform.

TECHNOLOGY STACK

• Primary language: Go
• Data storage: PostgreSQL, Redshift, S3,Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, ClickHouse
• Data processing: Kinesis, Firehose
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes
• Core framework: Temporal

You do not need experience with every technology in our stack. We value strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to learn unfamiliar systems.

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.