Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure Foundations

About this role

Design and build the next generation of Temporal Cloud’s multi-cloud infrastructure platform. The role owns a significant system spanning platform APIs, infrastructure modeling, deployment control, and recovery, while coordinating engineers and contributing hands-on code.

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

Infrastructure Foundations

Stack

What you'll do

• Design abstractions for infrastructure across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
• Build a declarative model for describing and reconciling Kubernetes workloads and cloud resources.
• Design a deployment control plane with shared inventory, dependency-aware rollouts, and approvals.
• Build reliability into systems through progressive rollouts, observability, failure testing, and recovery.
• Develop the area roadmap with the engineering manager and make system-level tradeoffs.
• Coordinate engineers, lead design reviews, coach senior engineers, and contribute code.
• Collaborate across teams and manage compatibility and migrations as the platform evolves.

What we're looking for

• 10+ years of software development experience, including designing and operating distributed production infrastructure.
• Production infrastructure experience on at least two of AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
• Deep Kubernetes knowledge, including scheduling, controllers, resource management, isolation, and upgrades.
• Experience building a significant multi-component system and coordinating engineers to deliver it.
• Strong coding skills in Go or another systems language, with continued hands-on development.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and sound judgment in ambiguous situations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Infrastructure experience across all three cloud providers, especially onboarding a new provider.
• Experience building Kubernetes controllers or operators, such as Crossplane or ACK.
• Open-source contributions or maintainer experience in Kubernetes, CNCF, or related projects.
• Experience with deployment control planes, progressive delivery, and safe infrastructure migrations.
• Experience automating patching and upgrades across large cloud-native fleets.
• Experience building Go infrastructure services and durable workflows with Temporal.

Benefits

• Equity