Staff Software Engineer, Temporal
Traffic
$170-250k
This role is 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
This role is 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
- We are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future
- Proven experience leading complex engineering efforts focused on network traffic management, network optimization, and cloud orchestration
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to align stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams
- 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 like Go, Java, or similar, with strong expertise in writing concurrent and distributed code
- Extensive experience designing and building distributed systems, leveraging concurrency primitives, and optimizing network performance
- Deep expertise in traffic and networking systems, with familiarity across adjacent infrastructure domains
- Hands-on experience with cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and the ability to optimize cost, performance, and scalability
- A strong sense of ownership and the ability to balance short-term priorities with long-term strategic goals
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure Foundations team, where you will play a key role in driving the technical strategy, execution, and leadership of projects across traffic management, network optimization, and cloud orchestration
- This is an exciting opportunity to significantly impact the scalability, reliability, and operational excellence of Temporal’s networking infrastructure, while also mentoring and guiding the team
- Lead the design and development of systems that optimize network traffic and scale for global expansion
- Drive architectural decisions for high-impact projects, ensuring scalability and reliability
- Co-author long-term technical roadmaps that set the vision for network scalability, performance, and engineering velocity
- Set the standard for a culture of engineering and operational excellence
- Build and nurture effective partnerships across engineering, product, and security teams to align on network infrastructure goals
- Lead and conduct design reviews for critical projects with a focus on system-level tradeoffs and network scalability
- Drive the design and implementation of “secure by default” network systems in collaboration with security teams
- Act as a key stakeholder by engaging with customers and internal teams to understand business requirements and deliver innovative solutions
- Deeply understand how to leverage Temporal’s software to build and scale networking infrastructure
- Gather insights into customer needs and incorporate them into technical decision-making for traffic management and networking strategies
- Stay at the forefront of technology advancements in traffic management, networking, and cloud orchestration
- Mentor and guide engineers, sharing best practices and design principles for building reliable and scalable networking systems
- Drive alignment across teams, ensuring roadmaps are cohesive and deliverables are on track
- Foster a collaborative and growth-oriented environment, helping others improve while continuing to expand your own expertise
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 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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