Responsibilities
- Define and execute the long-term architectural strategy for our multi-cloud compute and traffic platforms.
- Lead hands-on implementation for critical infrastructure projects, focusing on reliability, system automation and performance at scale.
- Multi-year technical roadmaps establishing vision for infrastructure scalability, reliability, security, and engineering velocity.
- Maintain a culture of engineering and operational excellence.
- Technical leadership and mentorship of engineers through design reviews and code contributions—you define the technical direction and eliminate architectural barriers to execution.
- Maintain end-to-end technical stewardship for your systems, ensuring execution aligns with architectural vision and best practices.
- Act as a key technical advisor to Engineering Leadership and Product Management, influencing the strategic direction of Temporal Cloud infrastructure.
- Cross-team collaboration to align architectural roadmaps and drive adoption of best practices.
- Participation and leadership in design reviews for projects across Infrastructure (Developer Productivity) with a focus on automation, infrastructure, scalability, and reliability.
- Partnering with Security to build ‘secure by default’ systems.
- Engaging with key customers to help understand their deep technical requirements and enable their business with platform capabilities.
- The reliability of systems under your technical ownership.
- Ensuring team members have clarity on the technical vision, priorities, and the tools and processes needed to meet shipping deadlines.
- Design principles for building reliable, secure, and scalable systems.
- Grow others via technical mentorship, architectural guidance, and driving the engineering excellence bar.
Requirements
- Graduate degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Expert-level design and coding skills with deep knowledge of performance tuning, concurrency, and distributed systems architecture.
- Extensive experience designing and implementing large-scale public cloud infrastructure.
- Excellent technical leadership and impact—at least 10 years of experience as a Software Engineer, with significant time spent operating at the Senior/Staff IC level.
- Deep experience in building and leading the development of complex distributed software systems and microservices for a cloud infrastructure organization.
- Hands-on expertise with multiple cloud providers, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Superior collaboration skills and experience driving technical alignment across an organization and drafting long-term technical roadmaps.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and a willingness to communicate complex solutions and results to all levels of the organization.
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!
- 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, 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.
- Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
Additional Information
- $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 - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
