Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Enablement

Temporal Technologies is an open-source programming model company on a mission to simplify code and enhance application reliability. They are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Cloud Enablement team, focusing on backend systems that power critical Temporal Cloud capabilities and ensure high availability and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement backend features that apply and extend the Temporal OSS replication stack to new Temporal Cloud capabilities
• Contribute to Temporal Cloud High Availability features, including:
• Namespace replication within and across regions and cloud providers
• Monitoring replication health and lag
• Supporting manual and automated failover workflows
• Build and improve namespace migration systems, including:
• Migration of namespaces and workloads between self-hosted Temporal clusters and Temporal Cloud
• Migration between Temporal Cloud environments or regions
• Tooling that supports safe cutover, validation, and rollback
• Own medium-to-large features end-to-end, from design through production rollout and long-term maintenance
• Write clear design documentation describing system behavior, tradeoffs, and failure modes
• Ensure features are production-ready by delivering:
• Service-level logs, metrics, and tracing
• Alerts, dashboards, and operational runbooks
• Participate in operational ownership, including on-call rotations, incident response, and postmortems
• Collaborate with teammates to continuously improve reliability, operability, and development velocity

Requirements:

• Strong experience designing and building distributed backend systems with a focus on reliability and scalability
• Hands-on experience operating production systems, including debugging failures and improving observability
• Experience developing highly concurrent systems
• Demonstrated ability to write concurrent production code, preferably in Go (Java or similar languages also welcome)
• Solid understanding of failure modes, replication, and resiliency patterns in distributed systems
• Ability to independently drive work from problem definition to delivery, while collaborating closely with peers and stakeholders
• A mindset focused on building systems that are safe to operate, easy to reason about, and resilient to change
• Experience with replication, failover, or disaster recovery systems
• Experience designing or operating migration tooling for distributed systems
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and containerized environments (e.g., Kubernetes)