Staff Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud)

United States - Remote Opportunity · Remote · full time · Lead / Staff / Principal

$212,000 – $278,250

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

What this role is

This role involves designing and building the compute infrastructure platform that powers Temporal Cloud, focusing on autoscaling systems, multi-tenant safety, and worker execution environments. It suits experienced platform engineers who thrive on solving complex distributed systems problems and want to influence the architecture of a developer-focused infrastructure company.

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

Skills this role names

What they ask for

Required

Significant experience building distributed systems or multi-tenant platform services
Strong systems fundamentals including concurrency, performance, and reliability
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 make tradeoff decisions

Nice to have

Experience building cloud infrastructure platforms
Experience with IAM and security boundaries for cross-account execution
Experience building Kubernetes controllers, CRDs, or heterogeneous worker fleet operations