Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Foundations - Temporal

Role Summary

Temporal has an opening for a Senior Software Infrastructure Engineer on the Infrastructure team focused on driving technical strategy, alignment, and execution of projects across compute, networking, cloud orchestration, and observability. This is an opportunity to join an engineering team focused on improving the scalability and reliability of Temporal’s core infrastructure.

In this role, you will be the subject matter expert and build critical systems to identify and reduce costs as Temporal optimizes for scale in the cloud.

What You'll Do

Invent

• Build systems that optimize cloud use and scale for expansion.
• Contribute to system architecture and execution.
• Co-author roadmaps establishing the vision for infrastructure scalability, reliability, and engineering velocity.
• Continue to maintain and foster a culture of engineering and operational excellence.

Own

• Develop effective partnerships across engineering and product teams.
• Collaborate across teams to keep roadmaps aligned.
• Perform design reviews for multiple projects with a focus on infrastructure scalability and reliability.
• Partner with Security to build 'secure by default' systems.
• Engage with stakeholders and customers to help understand their requirements and enable their business.

Learn

• Investigate and understand the ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power infrastructure at scale.
• Get educated as to Temporal's customer needs that drive infrastructure design decisions.

Collaborate

• Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale.
• Learn and help others get better while you grow.

What You'll Bring

• Experience contributing to complex cross-team engineering efforts focused on cloud, compute, networking, and storage infrastructure.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Comfort driving alignment across an organization and contributing to long-term roadmaps.
• Demonstrated ability to make system-level tradeoffs.
• At least 10 years of coding experience (Go, Java, or other applicable language) and experience writing concurrent code.
• Experience designing distributed systems and using concurrency primitives.
• Deep experience in at least one infrastructure domain and familiarity with adjacencies.
• Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.