Staff Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud)

Temporal Technologies is an open source programming model company on a mission to simplify code and improve the developer experience. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to build managed compute primitives for Temporal Cloud, focusing on creating self-optimizing autoscaling systems and enhancing operability features.

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

Requirements:

• 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