Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Temporal's Foundations team as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to the technical strategy, alignment, and execution of projects related to compute, networking, cloud orchestration, and observability. You will build systems that optimize cloud use and scale for expansion, contribute to system architecture, and co-author roadmaps for infrastructure scalability and reliability. This role involves collaborating with engineering and product teams, performing design reviews, partnering with security, and engaging with stakeholders and customers. You will also investigate ways to leverage Temporal's software and learn about customer needs driving infrastructure design decisions. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and concurrent programming, along with excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Requirements

• Experience contributing to complex cross-team engineering efforts focused on cloud, compute, networking and storage infrastructure
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• You are comfortable driving alignment across an organization and contributing to long-term roadmaps
• Demonstrated ability to make system-level tradeoffs
• At least 5 years 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 and familiarity with adjacencies
• Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
• 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
• AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
• Empower 401K Plan
• Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com
• Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness
• $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
• $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
• $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
• $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
• $500 / Year Professional Memberships
• $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
• Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
• The estimated pay range for this role is $150,000 - $210,000, depending on qualifications and location
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan