Senior Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud)

United States - Remote Opportunity · Remote · full time · Senior

$176,000 – $231,000

Listed on Temporal’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

Build the compute infrastructure that powers Temporal Cloud's managed execution platform, designing autoscaling systems and cloud primitives that make distributed compute transparent and safe for customers. This role suits experienced backend engineers who've shipped platform services and want to own the full lifecycle of infrastructure components from design through production operations.

Our summary, not Temporal’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

What they ask for

Required

Experience building distributed systems or multi-tenant platform services
Strong systems fundamentals in concurrency, performance, and reliability
Track record of shipping platform primitives used by other engineers or customers
Ownership of operational outcomes including SLOs and incident response
Excellent written communication and ability to reason about tradeoffs

Nice to have

Cloud infrastructure platform experience
IAM and security boundaries for cross-account execution models
Kubernetes controllers, CRDs, or heterogeneous worker fleet operations