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About this Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Foundations role at Temporal Technologies

Temporal Technologies · Remote · United States, Remote Opportunity

About Us

Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.
 
Our values guide us —they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We’re curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
 
Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!

Summary

We have an opening for a Senior Software Infrastructure Engineer in our Infrastructure team focused on driving technical strategy, alignment and execution of projects across compute, networking, cloud orchestration, and observability. This is an opportunity to join an engineering team focused on improving the scalability and reliability of Temporal’s core infrastructure.

In this role, you will be the SME and build critical systems to identify and reduce costs as we optimize for scale in the cloud. 
 
What You'll Do
 
Invent
  • Build systems that optimize cloud use and scale for expansion.
  • Contribute to system architecture and execution.
  • Co-author roadmaps establishing the vision for infrastructure scalability, reliability, and engineering velocity.
  • Continue to maintain and foster a culture of engineering and operational excellence.
Own
  • Develop effective partnerships across engineering and product teams.
  • Collaborate across teams to keep roadmaps aligned.
  • Perform design reviews for multiple projects with a focus on infrastructure scalability and reliability.
  • Partner with Security to build ‘secure by default’ systems.
  • Engage with stakeholders and customers to help understand their requirements and enable their business.
Learn
  •  Investigate and understand the ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power infrastructure at scale.
  • Get educated as to Temporal's customer needs that drive infrastructure design decisions.
Collaborate
  • Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale.
  • Learn and help others get better while you grow.
 
What You'll Bring
  • Experience contributing to complex cross-team engineering efforts focused on cloud, compute, networking and storage infrastructure.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
  • You are comfortable driving alignment across an organization and contributing to long-term roadmaps.
  • Demonstrated ability to make system-level tradeoffs.
  • At least 10 years coding experience (Go, Java, or other applicable language) and experience writing concurrent code.
  • Experience designing distributed systems and using concurrency primitives.
  • Deep experience in at least one infrastructure and familiarity with adjacencies.
  • Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
 
Compensation
  • The estimated pay range for this role is $176,000 - $237,600.
  • Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
Compensation 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.
 
Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded. 
 
U.S. 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, 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.  Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, home office setup, 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.

 

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.
 
We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.
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