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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Temporal Technologies Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Identity and Access Management, Network Control, Open Source Technology, Kubernetes, Api Design
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-compute-temporal-cloud-temporal-io-9019416

## About the Role

* Significant experience building distributed systems or multi-tenant platform services (design, implementation, and production operations).
 * Strong systems fundamentals: concurrency, performance, reliability, and failure-mode thinking.
 * A record of shipping platform primitives used by other engineers/customers (APIs, control planes, data planes).
 * Comfort owning outcomes: SLOs, incident response, and improving on-call quality over time.
 * Excellent written communication and crisp tradeoff thinking. (Go experience is a plus; judgment matters most.)

Nice to Have

 * Experience building cloud infrastructure platforms.
 * Experience with IAM/security boundaries for cross-account execution models.
 * Having built Kubernetes controllers / CRDs or heterogeneous worker fleet operations.

## Description

* Create new managed compute primitives that feel first-class in Temporal Cloud: crisp abstractions, clean APIs, and an extension story across compute providers.
 * Design self-optimizing autoscaling systems (signals, backstops, debouncing, guardrails) that scale worker fleets safely and predictably.
 * Define the Open Source Server * Cloud boundary for compute capabilities, keeping the architecture cohesive and maintainable.

Own

 * Architect, build, and operate services on the hot path of task execution where performance and correctness are customer-visible.
 * Deliver real-world cloud integrations (e.g., customer-account execution): IAM boundaries, secure credentials handling, networking constraints, quotas, and failure modes.
 * Make operability a feature: SLOs, tracing/metrics, load and failure testing, incident reviews, and continuous hardening.
 * Ship end-to-end: API design, rollout strategy, backwards compatibility, and long-term maintenance.

Teach

 * Raise the bar through design docs, strong reviews, pragmatic technical leadership, and mentorship.
 * Lead through influence across teams (Server, SDKs, Security, Control Plane) to land coherent platform changes.


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