Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Applications

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Become a part of the team developing systems that enhance the customer experience of Temporal Cloud at scale.

• Take ownership of services that manage Namespaces, Audit Logs, and Export functionalities.

• Spearhead the complete technical design and implementation for ensuring namespace scalability, reliability, and customer data offerings.

• Collaborate with analytics and product engineers to establish robust event schemas and link instrumentation to customer insights.

• Define and refine the architecture of high-throughput data pipelines.

• Balance factors such as data freshness, query costs, tenant isolation, and fault tolerance.

• Set schema contracts, implement anomaly detection, and create alerts for unnoticed failures.

• Establish quality benchmarks through thorough code and design reviews.

• Enhance maintainability, observability, and incident response through best practices and tools.

• Mentor fellow engineers, facilitate task completion, and promote ownership and learning.

• Optimize customer workflows through automation, tooling, and platform enhancements.

• Work alongside engineers, product managers, and solutions architects to design robust architectures and ensure effective cross-functional execution.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in designing and delivering production-quality backend systems within cloud environments.

• Direct accountability for architecture and operational results.

• High proficiency in at least one systems or backend programming language, with a preference for Go.

• Experience navigating large codebases and influencing technical decisions.

• Practical experience in building and maintaining distributed systems, focusing on concurrency, reliability, scalability, consistency, and failure management.

• Familiarity with data pipelines and storage systems, including Postgres, Redshift, Kafka/Kinesis, S3-compatible storage, and ClickHouse.

• Proven track record of ensuring data accuracy and traceability at a large scale.

• Experience in observability, incident management, performance optimization, on-call preparedness, and continuous delivery.

• Capability to convert vague requirements into actionable technical strategies.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience in drafting design documents and elucidating complex systems.

• A builder's mentality aimed at simplifying workflows and enhancing tools.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity offered.

• High-impact ownership over systems directly linked to revenue, customer lifecycle, and platform scalability.

• A collaborative engineering culture that prioritizes quality, pragmatism, and measurable outcomes.

• Access to exceptional technical colleagues and a feedback-rich environment.

• Lean processes with autonomy, free from unnecessary bureaucracy.

• A strong focus on reliability and operational excellence while maintaining rapid iteration.

• Opportunities for mentorship and a thoughtful design culture.

• AI interview recording/transcription available, with the option to decline without affecting candidacy.