[Remote] Staff Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Temporal Technologies is on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox, building a team that focuses on improving the developer experience and creating world-class open-source software. The Staff Software Engineer for Compute will be responsible for architecting and building managed compute primitives, designing self-optimizing autoscaling systems, and ensuring high performance and correctness in task execution services.

Responsibilities

• Create new managed compute primitives that feel first-class in Temporal Cloud: crisp abstractions, clean APIs, and an extension story across compute providers
• Design self-optimizing autoscaling systems (signals, backstops, debouncing, guardrails) that scale worker fleets safely and predictably
• Define the Open Source Server ↔ Cloud boundary for compute capabilities, keeping the architecture cohesive and maintainable
• Architect, build, and operate services on the hot path of task execution where performance and correctness are customer-visible
• Deliver real-world cloud integrations (e.g., customer-account execution): IAM boundaries, secure credentials handling, networking constraints, quotas, and failure modes
• Make operability a feature: SLOs, tracing/metrics, load and failure testing, incident reviews, and continuous hardening
• Ship end-to-end: API design, rollout strategy, backwards compatibility, and long-term maintenance
• Raise the bar through design docs, strong reviews, pragmatic technical leadership, and mentorship
• Lead through influence across teams (Server, SDKs, Security, Control Plane) to land coherent platform changes

Skills

• Significant experience building distributed systems or multi-tenant platform services (design, implementation, and production operations)
• Strong systems fundamentals: concurrency, performance, reliability, and failure-mode thinking
• A record of shipping platform primitives used by other engineers/customers (APIs, control planes, data planes)
• Comfort owning outcomes: SLOs, incident response, and improving on-call quality over time
• Excellent written communication and crisp tradeoff thinking. (Go experience is a plus; judgment matters most.)
• Experience building cloud infrastructure platforms
• Experience with IAM/security boundaries for cross-account execution models
• Having built Kubernetes controllers / CRDs or heterogeneous worker fleet operations

Benefits

• Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
• 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!
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com
• Perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness
• $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
• $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
• $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
• $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
• $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
• Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness

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