Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure Foundations

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure Foundations team. This role focuses on driving technical strategy, alignment, and execution across compute, networking, and cloud orchestration. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the scalability, reliability, and operational excellence of Temporal’s core infrastructure while also influencing the long-term direction of the platform.

• Design and build systems that optimize cloud usage and scale for global expansion.
• Contribute to system architecture and execution with a focus on distributed systems.
• Co-author roadmaps, setting the vision for infrastructure scalability, reliability, and engineering velocity.
• Build reliable and scalable network, storage, and compute systems.
• Foster and maintain a culture of engineering and operational excellence.

• Develop effective partnerships across engineering, security, and product teams to ensure alignment of infrastructure goals.
• Lead design reviews for projects, with a focus on system reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Partner with Security to ensure infrastructure is secure by default.
• Engage directly with stakeholders and customers to understand their requirements and enable their success.

• Deeply understand how to leverage Temporal’s platform to power infrastructure at scale.
• Gain insights into customer needs and translate them into infrastructure design decisions.
• Explore new technologies and approaches to enhance infrastructure reliability and scalability.

• Share and advocate for design principles to build reliable systems at scale.
• Mentor and grow other engineers, fostering a culture of learning and collaboration.
• Drive alignment across teams, ensuring roadmaps and priorities remain connected to organizational goals.

• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional engineering efforts focused on cloud, compute, networking, and storage infrastructure.
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to drive alignment across diverse teams and stakeholders.
• A track record of contributing to long-term technical roadmaps and making thoughtful system-level tradeoffs.
• At least 8+ years of coding experience in languages such as Go, Java, or similar, with expertise in writing concurrent code.
• Strong experience designing distributed systems and utilizing concurrency primitives.
• Deep expertise in at least one infrastructure domain (e.g., compute, networking, storage) and familiarity with related domains.
• Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), with an understanding of how to optimize for cost, performance, and reliability.
• A passion for driving technical excellence, scalability, and operational reliability in cloud-based infrastructure.

Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.