Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform Foundations

SummaryThe Cloud Platform Foundations team builds and operates the core infrastructure behind Temporal Cloud, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and automation. The team owns foundational systems including high availability and disaster recovery, control plane automation, resource and namespace management, and the customer-facing interfaces that shape how users integrate with the platform—from our APIs and CLI to the Terraform provider, SDKs, and Kubernetes operator.In this role, you'll build systems that directly strengthen Temporal Cloud's resilience, performance, and developer experience. You'll work closely with engineers and product managers to automate critical operations, evolve our multi-tenant control plane, reduce blast radius, improve namespace density, and build safer CI/CD pipelines. If you enjoy solving ambiguous, high-leverage infrastructure problems and creating durable tools that help both customers and engineers move faster, we'd love to meet you.What You'll DoHigh Availability & Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) — Enabling continuous regional failover and improving platform resilience.Control Plane Automation — Automating operations to improve reliability and developer efficiency.Database Performance and Optimization: Our data layer is scaling beyond its current limits. We need someone who can scale it by orders of magnitude while holding the line on latency, reliability, and availability.Deployment Plane: As our deploy frequency and engineering headcount both climb, we own redesigning the path from commit to production, drawing on strong infrastructure, deployment tooling, and systems design expertise.CI/CD for Control Plane — Building reliable pipelines for safer rollouts, faster iteration, and better test coverage.Technology StackPrimary Language: GoData Storage: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redshift, S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob StorageData Processing: Kinesis, FirehoseInfrastructure: KubernetesBilling & Revenue: Metronome, StripeGo-to-Market Integrations: Salesforce, Segment, Pylon, Zapier, cloud marketplace APIsCustomer-Facing Standards: OpenMetrics, FOCUSCore Framework: Temporal (of course )What You Can ExpectHigh-impact ownership over systems tied directly to revenue, customer lifecycle, and platform scalabilityCollaborative engineering culture focused on quality, pragmatism, and measurable outcomesExceptional technical colleagues and a feedback-rich environmentLean processes and autonomy without unnecessary bureaucracyStrong emphasis on reliability and operational excellence—balanced with rapid iterationA team that values mentorship, thoughtful design, and steady improvements that compound over timeWhat You'll BringBackend engineering experience with a cloud/infrastructure focus, ideally with some ops exposure — a blend of infra and database-driven systems.Experience on a control plane team for cloud-based microservices.Background building or operating multi-tenant SaaS applications.Familiarity with density-oriented cloud provider architectures.Strong Postgres (or similar relational database) experience.Track record designing for high availability, and managing compute and traffic at scale.Solid database chops, and a bias toward building rather than just configuring — you'd rather write the tool than click through one.CLI and DevOps fluency.Nice to Have - Exposure to data pipelining.Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.Compensation Range: $140.8K - $231KLocationSeattle, Washington; Austin, Texas; San Francisco, CaliforniaEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeRemoteDepartmentEngineeringCloud FoundationsCompensationUS - Tier 1Salary $176K – $231K • Offers EquityUS - Tier 2Salary $158.4K – $207.9K • Offers EquityUS - Tier 3Salary $140.8K – $184.8K • Offers EquityTier GuideCompensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.