Staff Software Engineer, Temporal
Release Engineering & Testing Platform
$170-250k
+ Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
Open source microservice state management
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Open source microservice state management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-250k
+ Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
201-500 employees
Company mission
To remove the complexity in developing reliable software for the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience providing technical leadership in developer tooling, release engineering, or large-scale testing frameworks
- Strong opinions on release engineering and testing practices that are equally balanced by a pragmatic drive for impact
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement CI/CD systems, release automation, and testing infrastructure at scale
- Proficiency in Go (required) with experience building and maintaining production systems
- Track record of mentoring and guiding engineers to elevate technical standards
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, self-directed environment with strong communication and collaboration skills
What the job involves
- We have an opening for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Developer Productivity Team, with a dedicated focus on building and scaling our release engineering and testing platform
- This team’s mission is to make Temporal developers faster, more reliable, and more effective
- As a Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership, design vision, and hands-on implementation for the systems that enable reliable, automated, and high-confidence releases of Temporal’s core platforms and services
- You’ll also drive the strategy and evolution of our internal testing frameworks to ensure quality at scale
- This is an opportunity to set the direction for a mission-critical team that acts as a force multiplier across the company
- We are passionate engineers who care deeply about empowering our peers and building the foundation for developer productivity
- Define and own the technical strategy for Temporal’s release engineering and testing platforms, ensuring they scale with the company
- Design, implement, and evolve automation for CI/CD, release validation, regression testing, and deployment
- Build frameworks and tooling that enable developers to test, validate, and ship with confidence
- Lead technical planning and establish best practices for release reliability and testing at scale
- Document design choices, workflows, and operational practices to ensure sustainable adoption across teams
- Set a high bar for technical excellence in release engineering and testing platforms
- Design and build multi-component, distributed systems that operate at scale
- Drive root-cause analysis and resolution of issues across the release stack
- Anticipate performance and reliability tradeoffs of design options and guide the team in making pragmatic choices
- Mentor engineers across the organization in release automation and testing best practices
- Able to participate in the team’s on-call rotation
- Stay ahead of emerging practices in release engineering, testing, and developer productivity
- Develop deep expertise in Temporal’s architecture to design testing frameworks that reflect real-world complexity
- Investigate and understand ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power our mission
- Understand developer needs across the company and influence tooling strategies to maximize velocity and confidence
- Partner with engineering leadership to align release engineering strategy with company goals
- Work across teams to design scalable release processes and testing strategies
- Advocate for system reliability and developer experience in cross-functional discussions
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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