Director of Engineering, Temporal
Cloud Identity
$250-300k
+ Equity
Open source microservice state management
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Open source microservice state management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$250-300k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To remove the complexity in developing reliable software for the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- Deep IAM Expertise: Experience designing and building complex IAM systems, including user/account/resource data models, low-latency authorization systems, and API key management
- Enterprise Awareness: Ability to translate enterprise needs into a strategic roadmap. Experience working directly with large customers to inform priorities and validate approaches
- Strong Architectural Judgment: Track record of designing scalable and resilient systems, and making thoughtful tradeoffs around build vs buy, performance vs complexity, etc
- Security Fundamentals: Solid grounding in threat modeling, encryption, secrets management, and other core principles required to lead secure system design conversations
- Cloud Infrastructure Knowledge: Familiarity with modern cloud IAM models (e.g., AWS IAM, GCP IAM) and how they influence multi-tenant platform design
- Leadership Experience: 7+ years of engineering leadership with at least 3 years managing managers or Staff+ ICs. Proven ability to build high-performing teams and mentor deeply technical engineers
What the job involves
- Identity and Access Management (IAM) is foundational to delivering a secure, enterprise-ready developer platform
- As Director of Engineering for IAM at Temporal, you will be responsible for defining and driving the strategy, architecture, and execution of our IAM systems across both the control and data planes
- This is a high-impact leadership role that shapes how customers authenticate, authorize, and interact with Temporal across cloud environments
- You’ll collaborate closely with security, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, performant, and secure identity systems that support our largest customers and unlock future growth
- Set Technical Vision: Define and own the long-term IAM architecture and strategy, aligned with product needs and security standards
- Lead Execution: Guide the IAM engineering team in delivering robust authentication and authorization systems, ensuring low latency and high reliability
- Engage with Enterprise Needs: Leverage insights from enterprise customers to prioritize features and deliver IAM capabilities that remove blockers to adoption and expansion
- Build with Ecosystem Awareness: Design composable architectures that integrate with, rather than rebuild, existing tools—leveraging OSS and commercial IAM solutions when appropriate
- Cross-functional Leadership: Partner with Product, Security, and Infrastructure Engineering to develop and execute on roadmaps, system designs, and delivery plans
- Security-First Mindset: Ensure all IAM systems are built with strong security fundamentals, from threat modeling to the design of our authz data model, machine-based auth, and fine-grained access controls
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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