Staff Software Engineer, Temporal

Cloud Capacity

$170-250k

Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Java

Azure

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

Open source microservice state management

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Open source microservice state management

201-500 employees

B2BInternet of ThingsSaaSDevOpsCloud Computing

Be an early applicant

$170-250k

Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Java

Azure

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

201-500 employees

B2BInternet of ThingsSaaSDevOpsCloud Computing

Company mission

To remove the complexity in developing reliable software for the cloud.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Proven experience contributing to large-scale infrastructure efforts spanning cloud compute, storage, and networking systems
Strong product and operational intuition around managing cloud costs, utilization tracking, and workload forecasting
A track record of designing distributed systems and services in a production cloud environment (preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Hands-on experience with container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes) and the surrounding ecosystem
Exceptional collaboration and communication skills—you influence through clarity, and you bring others along for the journey
Comfortable aligning cross-functional stakeholders on complex infrastructure problems, including executives and finance partners
6+ years of experience building production software using Go, Java, or similar languages

What the job involves

The Cloud Capacity team plays a critical role in ensuring the Temporal Cloud is scalable, efficient, and reliable for our customers’ most important workloads
As a Staff Engineer, you’ll lead high-impact initiatives to build systems that intelligently manage and forecast resource needs, directly influencing our infrastructure efficiency, customer experience, and platform cost strategy
Drive the technical vision and roadmap for Temporal’s Cloud Capacity systems in partnership with engineering and product leadership
Design and implement infrastructure to track resource utilization, forecast consumption, and support automated capacity planning at scale
Lead development of a resource manager that optimizes infrastructure efficiency based on usage trends, cost insights, and evolving customer needs
Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Cloud Infrastructure, and Finance to inform business-critical decisions around provisioning, pricing, and scaling
Guide long-term strategy to support intelligent autoscaling, workload isolation, and predictable performance in a multi-tenant cloud environment

Our take

The complexity of modern software systems puts a major strain on developers as it makes products difficult to plan, build and test. Cloud-native services simplify life for end-users, but app developers unfamiliar with the challenges of state management behind the construction of microservices. As the leading state management systems company, Temporal Technologies is an MIT licensed platform for unifying and managing application state.

The company offers an open source microservices orchestration platform, giving developers more time to code, while Temporal manages the scalability and reliability. The company’s technology is used to solve state management at an impressive list of cloud and tech companies, including Netflix, Doordash, Snap, and Google Cloud.

The company has achieved unicorn status with a valuation of over $1.5 billion following its early 2022 Series B. Temporal plans to use its latest Series "B-Prime" 2023 funding to continue growing its open-source community, and developing new features for its cloud offering.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

76% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.6)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Jan 2025

$144m

LATE VC

Jan 2024

$103m

LATE VC

Total funding: $711m

Company benefits

Medical/Dental (including ortho)/Vision Benefits
Unlimited Time-Off
401(k)
AD&D, Long and Short- term disability
Life Insurance
HSA + Employer Contribution
Employee Assistance Program
Company Issued Hardware + $1,000 Annually Home Office Setup
Remote-First

Company HQ

West Bellevue, Bellevue, WA

Leadership

Maxim Fateev

(CEO)

Former Senior Staff Engineer at Uber. Previously worked as a Staff Software Engineer at Google, Principal SDE at Amazon Web Services, Principal RSDE at Microsoft, and was a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon .com.

Samar Abbas

(CTO)

Former Staff Software Engineer at Uber. Previously worked at Microsoft as a Principal Software Engineer, and was a Software Design Engineer at Amazon.

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