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Salary: USD 176,000 - 237,600 / annual
Temporal is an open-source programming model that simplifies code, improves application reliability, and helps developers deliver features faster. The company is building the reliable foundation for every developer's toolbox.
This Senior Software Engineer role focuses on infrastructure foundations within Temporal's Infrastructure team. You will drive technical strategy, alignment, and execution of projects spanning compute, networking, cloud orchestration, and observability. The position offers an opportunity to join an engineering team dedicated to improving the scalability and reliability of Temporal's core infrastructure.
Key responsibilities include:
**Invent:** Build systems that optimize cloud usage and scale for expansion. Contribute to system architecture and execution. Co-author roadmaps establishing vision for infrastructure scalability, reliability, and engineering velocity. Maintain and foster a culture of engineering and operational excellence.
**Own:** Develop effective partnerships across engineering and product teams. Collaborate to keep roadmaps aligned. Perform design reviews for multiple projects with focus on infrastructure scalability and reliability. Partner with Security to build secure-by-default systems. Engage with stakeholders and customers to understand requirements and enable their business.
**Learn:** Investigate ways to leverage Temporal's software to power infrastructure at scale. Understand customer needs that drive infrastructure design decisions.
**Collaborate:** Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale. Help others improve while growing yourself.
Required qualifications include:
- At least 10 years of coding experience (Go, Java, or similar languages) with concurrent code experience
- Experience contributing to complex cross-team engineering efforts focused on cloud, compute, networking, and storage infrastructure
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to drive alignment across organizations and contribute to long-term roadmaps
- Demonstrated ability to make system-level tradeoffs
- Experience designing distributed systems and using concurrency primitives
- Deep experience in at least one infrastructure domain with familiarity with adjacent areas
- Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Compensation: $176,000 - $237,600 annually, plus equity participation. Benefits include unlimited PTO, 12 holidays plus 2 floating holidays, 100% premium coverage for medical/dental/vision, disability and life insurance, 401(k), and professional development stipends. International employees receive comparable benefits through Remote.com.
