Staff Software Engineer – Infrastructure Foundations

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

📋 Description

• Create an abstraction model that integrates AWS, GCP, and Azure into a single platform.

• Design and develop a comprehensive multi-component infrastructure platform from start to finish.

• Oversee engineers working on various platform components and clearly articulate system-level trade-offs.

• Establish declarative infrastructure models for Kubernetes workloads and associated cloud resources.

• Implement reproducible environments, visibility of drift, and safe reconciliation processes.

• Architect a deployment control plane featuring shared inventory, dependency awareness, rollout sequencing, and approval processes.

• Incorporate reliability into designs through defined blast radius limits, progressive rollouts, observability, load and failure testing, and recovery strategies.

• Direct the capability roadmap alongside the engineering manager.

• Assess requests and balance both technical and business risks.

• Outline development processes and best practices for operations.

• Mentor senior engineers, lead design reviews, evaluate critical pull requests, and assist in the hiring of engineers.

• Collaborate with teams including Traffic, Control Plane, Developer Productivity, Security, and service owners.

• Manage compatibility and migration as the platform progresses.

• Operate and enhance the infrastructure supporting Temporal Cloud, inclusive of Kubernetes-based platforms and Temporal workflows.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10+ years of software development experience, with substantial expertise in designing and running distributed infrastructure in production environments.

• Experience with production infrastructure on at least two of the following: AWS, GCP, and Azure.

• Proven ability in building, operationalizing, and scaling Kubernetes-based platforms across various cloud providers.

• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, including scheduling, controllers and reconciliation, resource management, isolation, and upgrade safety.

• Experience in designing and constructing a significant multi-component system while coordinating with other engineers.

• Strong programming skills in Go or a similar systems programming language, with a commitment to ongoing coding efforts.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• Familiarity with multi-cloud platform abstractions, Kubernetes architecture and operations, system-level trade-offs, design and code reviews, coaching, and technical documentation.

• Preferred: experience with all three cloud providers, Kubernetes controllers/operators, Crossplane or ACK, contributions to Kubernetes/CNCF open-source projects, deployment control planes, progressive delivery, dependency-aware rollouts, safe infrastructure migrations, lifecycle automation, Go infrastructure services, and orchestration of Temporal workflows.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• AI interview recording is utilized internally for evaluation, with an option to opt out without affecting candidacy.