Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform Foundations
Temporal Technologies2 months ago
Base Salary
$141k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Enable continuous regional failover and improve Temporal Cloud’s platform resilience through high availability and disaster recovery systems.
- Automate control-plane operations and manage resources, namespaces, and multi-tenant cloud services.
- Scale and optimize database systems while maintaining latency, reliability, and availability.
- Redesign the deployment path from commit to production using infrastructure, deployment tooling, and systems-design expertise.
- Build reliable CI/CD pipelines that support safer rollouts, faster iteration, and improved test coverage.
- Develop customer- and engineer-facing tools and interfaces including APIs, CLI tooling, Terraform provider integrations, SDKs, and a Kubernetes operator.
Requirements
- Backend engineering experience with a cloud or infrastructure focus and some operations exposure.
- Experience working on a control-plane team for cloud-based microservices.
- Experience building or operating multi-tenant SaaS applications.
- Familiarity with density-oriented cloud-provider architectures.
- Strong PostgreSQL or similar relational-database experience.
- Experience designing for high availability and managing compute and traffic at scale.
- Strong database skills and a preference for building tools rather than only configuring systems.
- Fluency with CLI and DevOps practices.
- Exposure to data pipelining is preferred.
Benefits
- High-impact ownership over systems tied to revenue, customer lifecycle, and platform scalability.
- Collaborative engineering culture focused on quality, pragmatism, and measurable outcomes.
- Exceptional technical colleagues and a feedback-rich environment.
- Lean processes and autonomy without unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Strong emphasis on reliability and operational excellence balanced with rapid iteration.
- Mentorship, thoughtful design, and steady improvements in a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Tech Stack
About Temporal Technologies
Temporal Technologies builds an open-source durable workflow platform that software teams use to orchestrate long-running, stateful application logic across services. It monetizes through a managed cloud offering and commercial support for its server and SDKs. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, it lists public adopters such as Netflix, Snap, Indeed, and Datadog.