Software Engineer 2, Compute

Role Description

As a Software Engineer, you are 2-5 years post-graduation and want to grow and learn while impacting Temporal's scalable platform. You will design, build, and maintain meaningful portions of our backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services.

The Compute team at Temporal powers durable execution for the world’s most demanding AI and enterprise systems. We’re solving a hard platform problem:

• Make compute transparent, elastic, safe-by-default, observable, and multi-cloud — without turning customers into infrastructure operators.
• Build platform primitives that span a variety of execution environments (e.g., serverless-style runtimes, containerized fleets, and customer-controlled deployments).
• Work at the intersection of control plane + data plane: scaling decisions, isolation boundaries, multi-tenant safety, and production-grade observability.

If you’ve built autoscaling systems, multi-tenant platforms, or cloud infrastructure, you’ll find a lot to love here.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement core backend service features.
• Provide appropriate test coverage unit, integration, and performance for feature ownership areas.
• Document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run services at scale with those features.
• Provide appropriate service level logs and metrics to operationalize features for cloud service setup.
• Provide appropriate alerts, dashboards, and runbooks for production.

Experience You'll Gain

• Learn, contribute, and scale distributed engineering.
• Learn a new way of developing software for complex distributed engineering problems.
• Learn from and work side-by-side with best-in-class engineers from startups, Uber, Meta, Stripe, Twitter, Twilio, Google, AWS, Microsoft, Adobe, and others.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of backend engineering experience.
• Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts and first principles.
• First-principles thinking and code design.
• Knowledge of multi-threading and concurrency.
• Experience with Go, Java, or other applicable languages.
• Experience building systems with technologies like Kafka, Cassandra, MySQL, and Elasticsearch.
• Experience building and running services on AWS and/or GCP.

Nice to Have

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or closely related field (highly desired).
• Production experience with concurrency programming.
• Experience with Go.
• Exposure to Open Source Systems.
• Exposure to workflow engines.

Compensation

The estimated pay range for this role is $148,000.00 - $197,000.00. This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan. Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays.
• 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision.
• AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available).
• Empower 401K Plan.
• Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!

International Benefits

• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com.
• Perks for all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.

Travel

Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.

Additional Perks

• $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals.
• $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships).
• $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account.
• $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment).
• $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet.
• Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness.

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.

Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.