Staff Engineer, Test Systems & Tooling for Production-Testing

Temporal; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Test Systems & Tooling to lead initiatives that enable production-like testing across engineering. You will build platforms that reproduce production behavior, enable workload replay, and create repeatable failure-mode tests in controlled environments.

You will drive system-level test coverage, build shared frameworks, and mentor teams to raise testing standards across the org. This role is based in the United States.

Qualifications

• Experience building production-quality systems and developer tooling.
• Demonstrated leadership on cross-team initiatives.
• Strong ability to design for observability and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Build production-like test environments and tooling with production topology.
• Enable production-representative workloads and stress testing.
• Create repeatable failure-mode testing and runbooks.
• Drive system-level test coverage and collaborate with reliability teams.
• Mentor engineers and influence testing strategy across teams.

Skills

Production-like testing

System-level testing

Technical leadership

Observability design

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Temporal is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Test Systems & Tooling to lead initiatives that enable production-like testing across engineering. You will build platforms that reproduce production behavior, enable workload replay, and create repeatable failure-mode tests in controlled environments.

You will drive system-level test coverage, build shared frameworks, and mentor teams to raise testing standards across the org. This role is based in the United States.