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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer - Test Systems & Tooling - **Company:** Temporal Technologies Inc. - **Location:** United States - **Salary:** $212,000.0 - $278,250.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Code Coverage, Code Review, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Load Testing, Reliability Engineering, Strategies of Testing, Performance Testing, System-level Testing, Integration Tests - **Published:** August 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/bf9fd4b6-3be5-4053-9b3e-bec61f362a40 ## About the Role * Demonstrated technical leadership: leading ambiguous, cross-team initiatives; driving alignment; and delivering durable systems that other teams rely on. * Experience designing for observability, debuggability, and operational readiness (metrics, logs, tracing, safe rollouts, and failure analysis). * Comfort working across organizational boundaries-collaborating with Cloud/Infrastructure, Reliability, Release Engineering, and product teams to land outcomes. * Strong written communication skills (design docs, testing strategy proposals, and documentation that scales adoption). Nice to Haves * Experience with chaos engineering, fault injection, workload replay/shadowing, performance testing, or multi-tenant test strategy. * Experience building internal platforms used broadly across an engineering org (paved roads, self-serve environments, shared frameworks). * Familiarity with measuring engineering/system outcomes (e.g., signal quality, coverage gaps closed, incident-to-coverage time, adoption). ## Description As a Staff Software Engineer on the Test Systems & Tooling team, you will lead technical initiatives that make sophisticated system-level testing practical across Engineering-spanning production-representative environments, workload replay/generation, and repeatable failure-mode testing. You'll build platforms and tooling that enable teams to reproduce and prevent the kinds of issues that only emerge from complex interactions between workload, scale, configuration, and multi-tenant behavior. What You'll Do * Build production-like test environments: Design and evolve tooling that makes it easy for engineers to spin up test cells that resemble production topology, configuration, and behavior, in partnership with Cloud/Infrastructure. * Enable production-representative workloads: Build capabilities for workload generation, multi-tenant testing, stress/load testing, and (where appropriate) traffic replay or replay-like systems to reproduce production behaviors in controlled environments. * Make failure-mode testing repeatable: Create tooling for injecting and validating failure conditions (latency, dependency faults, resource exhaustion, degraded-state recovery, and region-level failure scenarios) so we test them deliberately-not just learn from production. * Drive system-level test coverage: Identify high-impact system-level scenarios that are currently hard to test, and implement (or partner with the right teams to implement) repeatable coverage that's incorporated into continuous and/or release validation. * Build shared frameworks and paved paths: Provide opinionated libraries, harnesses, and patterns that make it easier for product teams to write high-quality system and integration tests consistently. * Raise the technical bar through leadership: Mentor engineers and influence testing strategy across the org through design docs, code reviews, and cross-team collaboration. * Partner across Engineering: Work closely with Reliability and Release Engineering to turn incident learnings into durable pre-production test coverage and to integrate validations into the release pipeline., * Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building and operating production-quality systems (platforms, infrastructure, developer tooling, or distributed systems). ## Related Videos - [Are Code Reviews Worth It? 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