Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Applications)

Role Overview

You’ll join Temporal as a Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Applications) in a remote-first environment. You’ll help shape the customer experience and drive the technical direction of Temporal’s cloud applications, working closely with engineers, product managers, and solutions architects.

Key Missions

• Design and implement critical systems to improve scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to create resilient architectures and raise reliability at scale.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of ownership and pragmatic excellence.

Responsibilities

• Write clear design documentation and align stakeholders on tradeoffs.
• Turn ambiguous requirements into executable technical plans.
• Own backend/cloud architecture and operational outcomes, including failure scenarios.
• Operate production systems with strong focus on observability, incident response, and performance tuning.
• Build and run distributed systems with attention to concurrency, consistency, scaling, and failure handling.

Requirements

• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to explain complex systems and align stakeholders.
• Builder mindset: simplify workflows, improve tooling, and leave systems better than found.
• Solid experience with data pipelines and storage systems (e.g., Postgres, Redshift, Kafka/Kinesis, S3-compatible storage, ClickHouse) with correctness and traceability at scale.
• Strong proficiency in at least one systems/backend language (Go preferred); comfortable navigating large codebases and driving technical decisions.
• Production-grade backend experience in cloud environments; direct ownership of architecture and operations.
• Production operations experience: observability, incident response, performance tuning, on-call readiness, continuous delivery.
• Hands-on distributed systems experience (concurrency, reliability, scaling, consistency, failure handling).

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with large-scale workflow orchestration platforms or similar distributed workflow systems.