Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform Foundations

📋 Job Overview

The Cloud Platform Foundations team builds and operates the core infrastructure behind Temporal Cloud, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and automation. The team owns foundational systems including high availability and disaster recovery, control plane automation, resource and namespace management, and the customer-facing interfaces that shape how users integrate with the platform—from our APIs and CLI to the Terraform provider, SDKs, and Kubernetes operator.

In this role, you'll build systems that directly strengthen Temporal Cloud's resilience, performance, and developer experience. You'll work closely with engineers and product managers to automate critical operations, evolve our multi-tenant control plane, reduce blast radius, improve namespace density, and build safer CI/CD pipelines. If you enjoy solving ambiguous, high-leverage infrastructure problems and creating durable tools that help both customers and engineers move faster, we'd love to meet you.

🏢 About Temporal Technologies

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.

🎯 The Role

You'll build systems that directly strengthen Temporal Cloud's resilience, performance, and developer experience. You'll work closely with engineers and product managers to automate critical operations, evolve our multi-tenant control plane, reduce blast radius, improve namespace density, and build safer CI/CD pipelines.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• High Availability & Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) — Enabling continuous regional failover and improving platform resilience.
• Control Plane Automation — Automating operations to improve reliability and developer efficiency.
• Database Performance and Optimization: Scale our data layer by orders of magnitude while holding the line on latency, reliability, and availability.
• Deployment Plane: Redesign the path from commit to production, drawing on strong infrastructure, deployment tooling, and systems design expertise.
• CI/CD for Control Plane — Building reliable pipelines for safer rollouts, faster iteration, and better test coverage.

🎁 Benefits

High-impact ownership over systems tied directly to revenue, customer lifecycle, and platform scalability
Collaborative engineering culture focused on quality, pragmatism, and measurable outcomes
Exceptional technical colleagues and a feedback-rich environment
Lean processes and autonomy without unnecessary bureaucracy
Strong emphasis on reliability and operational excellence—balanced with rapid iteration
A team that values mentorship, thoughtful design, and steady improvements that compound over time

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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.