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The Senior Software Engineer will design and implement backend features for the Cloud Enablement team, focusing on high availability, error detection, and workload migration in Temporal Cloud. Responsibilities include system documentation, operational ownership, and enhancing system reliability and observability.
About Us
Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.
Our values guide us —they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We’re curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
Summary
We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Cloud Enablement team, part of Temporal’s Cloud Global Services (CGS) organization.
The Cloud Enablement team focuses on applying and extending the Temporal OSS replication stack to power critical Temporal Cloud capabilities. These include High Availability (HA) namespaces, error detection and automated failover, and migration of workloads and namespaces between self-hosted Temporal clusters and Temporal Cloud, as well as within Temporal Cloud.
As a Senior Engineer, you will work on backend systems that sit at the core of Temporal Cloud’s enterprise offerings. These systems must be correct, reliable, observable, and safe to operate at scale, even in the presence of partial failures, network partitions, and evolving customer workloads. You’ll collaborate closely with other engineers in CGS Replication Foundations, Cloud, Infrastructure, and OSS teams to deliver production-grade features used by customers running mission-critical workflows.What You'll Do
- Design and implement backend features that apply and extend the Temporal OSS replication stack to new Temporal Cloud capabilities
- Contribute to Temporal Cloud High Availability features, including:
- Namespace replication within and across regions and cloud providers
- Monitoring replication health and lag
- Supporting manual and automated failover workflows
- Build and improve namespace migration systems, including:
- Migration of namespaces and workloads between self-hosted Temporal clusters and Temporal Cloud
- Migration between Temporal Cloud environments or regions
- Tooling that supports safe cutover, validation, and rollback
- Own medium-to-large features end-to-end, from design through production rollout and long-term maintenance
- Write clear design documentation describing system behavior, tradeoffs, and failure modes
- Ensure features are production-ready by delivering:
- Service-level logs, metrics, and tracing
- Alerts, dashboards, and operational runbooks
- Participate in operational ownership, including on-call rotations, incident response, and postmortems
- Collaborate with teammates to continuously improve reliability, operability, and development velocity
What You'll Bring
- Strong experience designing and building distributed backend systems with a focus on reliability and scalability
- Hands-on experience operating production systems, including debugging failures and improving observability
- Experience developing highly concurrent systems
- Demonstrated ability to write concurrent production code, preferably in Go (Java or similar languages also welcome)
- Solid understanding of failure modes, replication, and resiliency patterns in distributed systems
- Ability to independently drive work from problem definition to delivery, while collaborating closely with peers and stakeholders
- A mindset focused on building systems that are safe to operate, easy to reason about, and resilient to change
Nice to Have
- Experience with replication, failover, or disaster recovery systems
- Experience designing or operating migration tooling for distributed systems
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and containerized environments (e.g., Kubernetes)
- The estimated pay range for this role is $155,000 - $225,000.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.
Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded.
U.S. 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!
International Benefits
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers 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.
Travel
Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
Additional Perks
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
- $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)
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.
We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.
Top Skills
Go
Java
Kubernetes
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