Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage

Job Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Cloud Data Store (CDS) team, you will design, build, and maintain significant portions of our backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services. You will own the custom persistence stack for Temporal Cloud, which includes a Write Ahead Log, various metadata stores (Cassandra, etcd), multi-level caches, tiered storage, and more.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed data systems, crafting APIs, schemas, and replication paths that keep petabytes of workflow history durable and query-able.
• Drive reliability and performance, owning SLOs, creating chaos-test plans, profiling hot paths, and leading incident reviews.
• Provide technical leadership, breaking down roadmap epics, mentoring mid-level engineers, and stewarding design docs through RFC.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Server, Cloud, and DX teams, to land features end-to-end.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as an "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer" of highly scalable distributed systems.
• Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts, including multi-threading and concurrency.
• Experience writing concurrent code in production with languages like Go or Java.
• Experience building and running services on AWS.

Nice to Have

• Prior contributions to Temporal, Cadence, or other workflow engines.
• Deep expertise in a storage domain (LSM trees, columnar stores, transactional logs, etc.).
• Operated multi-region, ≥99.99% uptime services.
• Experience working with Open Source Systems.
• Experience building K8s controllers and/or CRDs.

Compensation

• Estimated pay range: $176,000 - $237,600.
• Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO, 12 holidays + 2 floating holidays.
• 100% premiums coverage for medical, dental, and vision.
• AD&D, LT & ST disability, and life insurance.
• Empower 401K plan.
• Additional perks for learning & development, lifestyle spending, in-home office setup, professional memberships, WFH meals, internet stipend, and more!