Senior Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join its Infrastructure organization. The role drives technical vision, architecture, and implementation for systems powering Temporal Cloud, with a focus on cloud compute, traffic, security, reliability, scalability, and mentorship.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the long-term architectural strategy for our multi-cloud compute and traffic platforms
• Lead hands-on implementation for critical infrastructure projects, focusing on reliability, system automation and performance at scale
• Multi-year technical roadmaps establishing vision for infrastructure scalability, reliability, security, and engineering velocity
• Maintain a culture of engineering and operational excellence
• Technical leadership and mentorship of engineers through design reviews and code contributions—you define the technical direction and eliminate architectural barriers to execution
• Maintain end-to-end technical stewardship for your systems, ensuring execution aligns with architectural vision and best practices
• Act as a key technical advisor to Engineering Leadership and Product Management, influencing the strategic direction of Temporal Cloud infrastructure
• Cross-team collaboration to align architectural roadmaps and drive adoption of best practices
• Participation and leadership in design reviews for projects across Infrastructure (Developer Productivity) with a focus on automation, infrastructure, scalability, and reliability
• Partnering with Security to build ‘secure by default’ systems
• Engaging with key customers to help understand their deep technical requirements and enable their business with platform capabilities
• The reliability of systems under your technical ownership
• Ensuring team members have clarity on the technical vision, priorities, and the tools and processes needed to meet shipping deadlines
• Design principles for building reliable, secure, and scalable systems
• Grow others via technical mentorship, architectural guidance, and driving the engineering excellence bar
• Ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power infrastructure at scale
• Customer needs that drive infrastructure design and architectural decisions

Requirements:

• Graduate degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Expert-level design and coding skills with deep knowledge of performance tuning, concurrency, and distributed systems architecture
• Extensive experience designing and implementing large-scale public cloud infrastructure
• Excellent technical leadership and impact—at least 10 years of experience as a Software Engineer, with significant time spent operating at the Senior/Staff IC level
• Deep experience in building and leading the development of complex distributed software systems and microservices for a cloud infrastructure organization
• Hands-on expertise with multiple cloud providers, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Superior collaboration skills and experience driving technical alignment across an organization and drafting long-term technical roadmaps
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and a willingness to communicate complex solutions and results to all levels of the organization