Temporal- Lead Software Engineer (Remote)

State Farm is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to help build, operate, and evolve its enterprise workflow orchestration platform using Temporal Cloud. The role focuses on developing reusable platform services, SDKs, automation, integrations, observability solutions, and enterprise standards while collaborating with application, cloud engineering, security, architecture, and product teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain reusable platform services and capabilities built on Temporal Cloud
• Develop SDKs, libraries, templates, and reference implementations that simplify adoption of the Temporal platform
• Partner with application teams to design reliable, long-running workflows and integrate existing applications with Temporal
• Build automation that improves developer productivity, platform reliability, and operational efficiency
• Design and implement observability solutions, including metrics, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing
• Help establish enterprise standards, best practices, and governance for workflow development
• Collaborate with cloud engineering, security, architecture, and product teams to deliver secure, scalable platform capabilities
• Investigate production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term improvements
• Contribute to platform roadmaps, technical documentation, and developer education

Requirements:

• Must Have: Extensive hands-on experience building with the open-source Temporal framework
• Hands-on experience building with the open-source Temporal framework
• Experience developing software using TypeScript, Go, Java, or another modern programming language
• Understanding of object-oriented design, distributed systems, and API development
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Familiarity with REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing
• Experience using Git and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Experience with Angular or a comparable frontend framework is preferred
• Experience building or supporting platform engineering or internal developer platforms
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications
• Experience with observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Splunk
• Familiarity with messaging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Amazon SQS
• Understanding of resiliency patterns including retries, circuit breakers, idempotency, and eventual consistency
• Experience implementing secure software development practices