Staff Software Engineer - Test Systems & Tooling
Temporal Technologies3 months ago
Base Salary
$212k - $278k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve tooling for production-like test cells that reflect production topology, configuration, and behavior.
- Build workload generation, multi-tenant testing, stress/load testing, and traffic replay or replay-like capabilities.
- Create repeatable tooling for fault injection and validation of latency, dependency faults, resource exhaustion, degraded-state recovery, and region-level failures.
- Identify high-impact system-level testing gaps and implement repeatable coverage for continuous and release validation.
- Build shared libraries, test harnesses, and patterns that help product teams create consistent system and integration tests.
- Lead cross-team technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and influence testing strategy through design documents, code reviews, and collaboration.
- Partner with Cloud/Infrastructure, Reliability, Release Engineering, and product teams to convert incident learnings into pre-production coverage and release-pipeline validations.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building and operating production-quality platforms, infrastructure, developer tooling, or distributed systems.
- Demonstrated technical leadership of ambiguous, cross-team initiatives and delivery of durable systems used by other teams.
- Experience designing for observability, debuggability, and operational readiness, including metrics, logs, tracing, safe rollouts, and failure analysis.
- Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries with infrastructure, reliability, release engineering, and product teams.
- Strong written communication skills for design documents, testing strategy proposals, and scalable documentation.
Benefits
- Estimated base pay range of $212,000-$278,250 depending on experience and location.
- Eligibility to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
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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.