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Job Description
Temporal Technologies is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join its Infrastructure Foundations team. This role is centered around driving technical strategy, alignment, and execution across compute, networking, and cloud orchestration. The Staff Software Engineer will contribute to the scalability, reliability, and operational excellence of Temporal’s core infrastructure, influencing the long-term direction of the platform.

What This Role Involves:
  • Designing and building systems that optimize cloud usage and scale for global expansion.
  • Contributing to system architecture and execution with a focus on distributed systems.
  • Co-authoring roadmaps, setting the vision for infrastructure scalability, reliability, and engineering velocity.
  • Building reliable and scalable network, storage, and compute systems.
  • Fostering and maintaining a culture of engineering and operational excellence.
  • Leading design reviews for projects, with a focus on system reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Partnering with Security to ensure infrastructure is secure by default.
  • Engaging directly with stakeholders and customers to understand their requirements and enable their success.
  • Sharing and advocating for design principles to build reliable systems at scale.
  • Mentoring and growing other engineers, fostering a culture of learning and collaboration.
  • Driving alignment across teams, ensuring roadmaps and priorities remain connected to organizational goals.

Requirements:
  • Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional engineering efforts focused on cloud, compute, networking, and storage infrastructure.
  • Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to drive alignment across diverse teams and stakeholders.
  • A track record of contributing to long-term technical roadmaps and making thoughtful system-level tradeoffs.
  • At least 8+ years of coding experience in languages such as Go, Java, or similar, with expertise in writing concurrent code.
  • Strong experience designing distributed systems and utilizing concurrency primitives.
  • Deep expertise in at least one infrastructure domain (e.g., compute, networking, storage) and familiarity with related domains.
  • Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), with an understanding of how to optimize for cost, performance, and reliability.
  • A passion for driving technical excellence, scalability, and operational reliability in cloud-based infrastructure.

What Temporal Offers:
  • Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
  • 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
  • AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
  • Empower 401K Plan
  • Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
  • $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
  • $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
  • $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
  • $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup
  • $500 / Year Professional Memberships
  • $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
  • Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
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