Staff Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud)
Temporal Technologies4 hours ago
Base Salary
$170k - $274k/yr
Responsibilities
- Create managed compute primitives with clean APIs and extension support across compute providers.
- Design self-optimizing autoscaling systems with signals, backstops, debouncing, and guardrails.
- Define the Open Source Server and Cloud boundary for compute capabilities.
- Architect, build, and operate performance- and correctness-critical services on the task-execution hot path.
- Deliver cloud integrations involving customer-account execution, IAM boundaries, secure credential handling, networking constraints, quotas, and failure modes.
- Own SLOs, tracing and metrics, load and failure testing, incident reviews, continuous hardening, rollout strategy, backward compatibility, and maintenance.
- Provide technical leadership through design documents, code reviews, mentorship, and cross-team influence.
Requirements
- Significant experience building distributed systems or multi-tenant platform services through design, implementation, and production operations.
- Strong fundamentals in concurrency, performance, reliability, and failure-mode analysis.
- A record of shipping platform primitives such as APIs, control planes, or data planes used by engineers or customers.
- Experience owning outcomes including SLOs, incident response, and on-call quality improvements.
- Excellent written communication and practical tradeoff judgment.
- Go experience is a plus.
- Experience building cloud infrastructure compute platforms is a plus.
- Experience with IAM and security boundaries for cross-account execution models is a plus.
- Experience building Kubernetes controllers or CRDs, or operating heterogeneous worker fleets, is a plus.
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.