Staff Software Engineer, Temporal
Release Engineering
CA$185-248k
+ Temporal's equity plan
Open source microservice state management
Be an early applicant
Open source microservice state management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$185-248k
+ Temporal's equity plan
201-500 employees
Company mission
To remove the complexity in developing reliable software for the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- A strong sense of ownership and pride in delivering systems that make releases seamless and reliable
- Motivation to automate repetitive processes and deliver operational simplicity
- Experience building or operating release engineering, build, or deployment systems at scale
- Strong technical judgment with the ability to balance safety, velocity, and maintainability
- Ability to work independently in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Experience developing scalable, distributed systems in production environments
- Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages, ideally Go
- Familiarity with Temporal or other workflow orchestration systems strongly preferred
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments
- Hands-on experience with major cloud providers such as AWS or GCP
- Strong understanding of operating systems, networking, and release automation best practices
- Background in CI/CD pipeline design and build tooling
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join Temporal’s Release Engineering team, the group responsible for how we build, qualify, and ship Temporal software
- The team’s goal is to deliver predictable, reliable, and fully automated releases that uphold the highest production standards and embody Temporal’s value of being Reliable as Gravity
- In this role, you will lead efforts to automate the entire release lifecycle using Temporal itself, working toward a long-term vision where scheduled releases require no human intervention
- This initiative represents a cornerstone of Temporal’s operational excellence and a potential product opportunity that demonstrates Temporal’s power as a workflow platform
- You will work across the full release stack, from build systems and qualification frameworks to deployment pipelines and release automation
- Lead the full Software Development Lifecycle from requirements and design to implementation, deployment, and long-term operation
- Design and build automation systems that orchestrate every step of the release process using Temporal
- Develop and maintain build tooling, deployment workflows, and release infrastructure that ensure consistency and safety at scale
- Deliver reliable hotfix and scheduled release workflows that minimize risk and eliminate manual coordination
- Document system design and operational procedures to enable clarity, reuse, and maintainability
- Take full ownership of the systems you build, ensuring they are scalable, dependable, and easy to operate
- Define and uphold high standards of technical excellence and reliability
- Operate production-grade systems and participate in the team’s on-call rotation as needed
- Continuously improve automation, release cadence, and feedback loops to reduce friction and human involvement
- Explore new ways to use Temporal to power the release and deployment lifecycle
- Deepen your understanding of Temporal’s architecture and service interactions
- Experiment with new automation patterns, testing strategies, and workflow designs that increase release confidence
- Work closely with all the engineering teams to evolve the release process and ownership model
- Participate in design reviews and contribute to system-wide improvements
- Share knowledge and best practices for building reliable, scalable automation systems
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
76% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2025
$144m
LATE VC
Jan 2024
$103m
LATE VC
Total funding: $706.3m
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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