Staff Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud)

About this role

Build managed compute capabilities for Temporal Cloud, making worker execution elastic, safe, observable, and multi-cloud. The role spans control-plane and data-plane systems, including autoscaling, isolation, cloud integrations, and production operations.

About the company

Temporal is a durable execution platform for running reliable workflows and long-running business processes. It helps engineering teams build fault-tolerant applications without custom state machines.

The team

Compute team, within Compute and Core Engineering.

Stack

What you'll do

• Design managed compute primitives and APIs that work across compute providers.
• Build safe, predictable autoscaling systems for worker fleets.
• Architect and operate services on the task-execution hot path.
• Deliver cloud integrations, including IAM boundaries, credential handling, networking, and quota management.
• Own SLOs, observability, load and failure testing, incident reviews, and service hardening.
• Lead end-to-end delivery, including API design, rollout, compatibility, and maintenance.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across teams.

What we're looking for

• Significant experience building and operating distributed systems or multi-tenant platform services.
• Strong systems fundamentals in concurrency, performance, reliability, and failure-mode analysis.
• Experience shipping platform primitives such as APIs, control planes, or data planes.
• Comfort owning SLOs, incident response, and on-call improvements.
• Excellent written communication and technical trade-off judgment.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud compute platforms spanning servers, CPU/GPU resources, VMs, containers, and networking.
• Experience extending Kubernetes with custom controllers and CRDs, and operating heterogeneous worker fleets.
• Experience with IAM and security boundaries for cross-account execution.
• Go experience.

Benefits

• Equity