Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Developer

Summary

Join Temporal's Cloud Platform group as a Senior Software Engineer to build and enhance our reliable and scalable Cloud Platform for customers. You will drive the architecture, design, and implementation of our Cloud Operational API, SDK, Terraform & CLI services and systems, focusing on creating a great customer experience. This role requires 4+ years of experience in building highly scalable distributed systems and solid computer science fundamentals. You will develop and execute against short-term and long-term roadmaps, making effective technical trade-offs. The position offers a competitive salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits, including unlimited PTO, full health insurance coverage, and various additional perks for learning and development.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as an "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer" of highly scalable distributed systems
• Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts including multi-threading and concurrency
• Experience writing concurrent code in production with languages like Go or Java or other applicable languages with skill level as "high end of Intermediate" and/or "Advanced" or "Expert" levels
• Experience building Cloud Control Planes
• Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome
• Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
• Strong communication skills and a desire to make an impact and thrive in small, collaborative, energetic teams
• Capable of operating from conception through the continuous operation of 24x7 services. Ideally, you have experience in a production environment

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of our Cloud Operational API, SDK, Terraform & CLI services and systems
• Build a great customer experience for Temporal Cloud developers using our infrastructure
• Develop and execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps, make effective technical trade-offs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Proactively identifying opportunities for and driving improvements to current programming practices, including process enhancements and tool upgrades
• Provide appropriate alerts, dashboards, and runbooks for production

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production

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
• 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