Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Growth

Significant experience designing and delivering

production-grade backend systems

(ideally in cloud environments) with meaningful ownership over architecture and operational outcomes.

at least one systems/backend language

(Go preferred), with the ability to navigate large codebases and drive technical decisions.

Demonstrated experience building and operating

The estimated pay range for this role is $180,000 – $225,000, depending on experience and location.

This role is also 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

Lead the Design of Business-Critical Systems:

Own end-to-end technical design and delivery for services that power customer acquisition, onboarding/off-boarding, and revenue operations.

Drive Architectural Excellence:

Define and evolve system architecture for high-throughput, fault-tolerant metering and billing pipelines; make principled tradeoffs across correctness, latency, cost, and operability.

Own Cross-Functional Execution:

Partner with Finance, RevOps, and Sales to translate business needs into robust, scalable systems—anticipating edge cases, ensuring audit-ability, and aligning stakeholders on milestones and risks.

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’re looking for a

Senior Software Engineer