What we do
Temporal provides a platform for building and running durable, stateful applications and workflows. The company offers both an open-source server and a managed cloud service (Temporal Cloud) that help developers handle distributed systems challenges like task orchestration, workflow execution, and failure recovery.
Careers at Temporal
Temporal has 46 open roles listed here, 36 of them remote, each read from its own careers site. The newest was posted Aug 18, 2026.
Teams hiring: Solutions Architecture (6), Product Management (4), Compute (3), Customer Support (3), Developer Relations (3), Finance (3).
Most roles are senior level (59%) or lead / staff / principal level (30%).
Postings that state pay list a median of $245,000 a year (middle half $204,000–$275,000), from 46 postings.
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Staff Software Engineer, Traffic
Temporal
Full-time · United States, Remote Opportunity · $212,000 – $280,000
This Staff-level role leads the technical strategy and execution for Temporal's networking infrastructure, focusing on traffic management, cloud orchestration, and system scalability. The position combines hands-on software engineering with mentorship, requiring deep expertise in distributed systems and network optimization across cloud platforms.
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Vice President, Global Corporate Controller
Temporal
Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $275,000 – $350,000
Temporal seeks a hands-on financial leader to build and manage all accounting, tax, treasury, and procurement operations as the company scales globally. This role offers rare ownership of the entire finance infrastructure for a high-growth consumption-based software company, with close partnership to the CFO and board.
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Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Foundations
Temporal
Full-time · United States, Remote Opportunity · $176,000 – $231,000
Temporal seeks a senior infrastructure engineer to design and optimize cloud systems that improve scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency across their platform. This role suits experienced backend engineers who enjoy system-level tradeoffs and can collaborate across teams to align on long-term infrastructure strategy.
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Senior Professional Services Engineer - East
Temporal
Full-time · United States - Remote Opportunity · $160,000 – $200,000
A delivery-focused role helping customers implement and operate Temporal workflow systems reliably in production. Ideal for an engineer with strong distributed systems expertise who thrives on hands-on technical problem-solving, teaching, and working directly with customers to move from design to reliable, scalable implementations.
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Senior Professional Services Engineer - West
Temporal
Full-time · United States - Remote Opportunity · $160,000 – $200,000
This role helps Temporal's customers build and operate reliable workflow systems in production, combining hands-on implementation work with knowledge transfer to make their teams self-sufficient. You'll work directly with engineering teams to establish patterns, standards, and operational practices that scale across deployments.
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Staff Solutions Architect, Growth - West
Temporal
Full-time · United States - Remote Opportunity · $250,000 – $300,000
Temporal seeks a senior technical leader to guide enterprise customers through distributed systems architecture decisions and drive adoption of their workflow orchestration platform across the Western region. You'll combine hands-on technical depth with customer relationship skills, advising executives on system design while partnering with sales to expand production deployments.
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Staff Product Manager, Cloud Namespace & Capacity
Temporal
Full-time · United States - Remote Opportunity · $185,000 – $260,000
This role owns the product experience for Temporal Cloud's namespace offering, from provisioning through operation, working across engineering and operations teams to balance reliability, performance, and cost at scale. It suits experienced product leaders comfortable with infrastructure systems thinking who can translate technical tradeoffs into customer-facing capabilities and policies.
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Director, Global Developer Success
Temporal
Full-time · United States - Remote Opportunity · $220,000 – $270,000
Lead Temporal's technical support organization as it scales from heroic problem-solving to a systematic, measurable operation. This role suits someone with deep technical credibility, leadership experience building support teams, and the ability to establish operating discipline while keeping developer empathy at the center.
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Senior Platform Architect - West
Temporal
Full-time · United States - Remote Opportunity · $200,000 – $225,000
As a Senior Platform Architect for Temporal's Technical Services team, you'll serve as the technical owner for customer engagements from initial purchase through stable production, establishing reliability standards and best practices while building scalable delivery patterns. This role suits experienced software or solutions engineers who excel at solving complex distributed systems challenges and want to drive customer success through deep technical partnership.
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Staff Software Engineer, AI Foundations (AI Agent Optimization)
Temporal
Full-time · United States or Canada, Remote Opportunity · $224,000 – $295,000
This is a staff-level engineering role focused on optimizing how AI agents use Temporal, a workflow orchestration platform. You'll design systems to help developers build efficient agents with better token spend and response times, working across multiple programming languages in a fully-remote, open-source-first environment.
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