Staff Software Engineer, Multi-cloud Kubernetes (Remote US) NEW

The Briefed; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal is seeking a Staff Engineer for its Infrastructure Foundations team to design the next Kubernetes-based multi-cloud platform and lead the engineers building it across AWS, GCP, and Azure. You will own a large distributed system and define declarative Kubernetes workload models, plus the deployment control plane with inventory, rollout order, and approvals.

You will set the roadmap with the engineering manager and coach senior engineers to improve reliability, gradual rollouts, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years building software, much of it distributed infrastructure in production.
• Production experience on at least two of AWS, GCP and Azure.
• Deep Kubernetes knowledge: scheduling, controllers, isolation and upgrades.
• Strong coding in Go or another systems language.
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design the model that makes AWS, GCP and Azure work as one platform
• Own a large multi-part system and coordinate the engineers building it
• Define a declarative model for Kubernetes workloads and cloud resources
• Design the deployment control plane: inventory, rollout order and approvals
• Build in reliability: limited blast radius, gradual rollouts and recovery
• Set the roadmap with the engineering manager and coach senior engineers

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Job description

Temporal's Infrastructure Foundations team runs the multi-cloud platform under Temporal Cloud across AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. As a Staff engineer you design the next, Kubernetes-based version of that platform and lead the engineers who build it.

Key responsibilities

• Design the model that makes AWS, GCP and Azure work as one platform
• Own a large multi-part system and coordinate the engineers building it
• Define a declarative model for Kubernetes workloads and cloud resources
• Design the deployment control plane: inventory, rollout order and approvals
• Build in reliability: limited blast radius, gradual rollouts and recovery
• Set the roadmap with the engineering manager and coach senior engineers

Requirements

• 10+ years building software, much of it distributed infrastructure in production
• Production experience on at least two of AWS, GCP and Azure
• Deep Kubernetes knowledge: scheduling, controllers, isolation and upgrades
• Strong coding in Go or another systems language
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Nice to have

• All three cloud providers
• Kubernetes controllers and operators, such as Crossplane
• Open-source work on Kubernetes or CNCF projects

Remote details

• Full-time remote role, open to people in the United States

Salary and benefits

US base salary $169,600 to $278,250 a year, depending on location, plus equity.