# Staff Software Engineer, Traffic

**Company**: Temporal
**Location**: United States, Remote Opportunity
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $212,000 - $280,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Traffic team, where you will play a key role in driving the technical strategy, execution, and leadership of projects across traffic management, network optimization, and cloud orchestration.

## Responsibilities

### Invent

- Lead the design and development of systems that optimize network traffic and scale for global expansion.

- Drive architectural decisions for high-impact projects, ensuring scalability and reliability.

- Co-author long-term technical roadmaps that set the vision for network scalability, performance, and engineering velocity.

- Set the standard for a culture of engineering and operational excellence.

### Own

- Build and nurture effective partnerships across engineering, product, and security teams to align on network infrastructure goals.

- Lead and conduct design reviews for critical projects with a focus on system-level tradeoffs and network scalability.

- Drive the design and implementation of “secure by default” network systems in collaboration with security teams.

- Act as a key stakeholder by engaging with customers and internal teams to understand business requirements and deliver innovative solutions.

### Learn

- Deeply understand how to leverage Temporal’s software to build and scale networking infrastructure.

- Gather insights into customer needs and incorporate them into technical decision-making for traffic management and networking strategies.

- Stay at the forefront of technology advancements in traffic management, networking, and cloud orchestration.

### Collaborate

- Mentor and guide engineers, sharing best practices and design principles for building reliable and scalable networking systems.

- Drive alignment across teams, ensuring roadmaps are cohesive and deliverables are on track.

- Foster a collaborative and growth-oriented environment, helping others improve while continuing to expand your own expertise.

## Requirements

- Proven experience leading complex engineering efforts focused on network traffic management, network optimization, and cloud orchestration.

- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to align stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams.

- A track record of contributing to long-term technical roadmaps and making thoughtful system-level tradeoffs.

- At least 8+ years of coding experience in languages like Go, Java, or similar, with strong expertise in writing concurrent and distributed code.

- Extensive experience designing and building distributed systems, leveraging concurrency primitives, and optimizing network performance.

- Deep expertise in traffic and networking systems, with familiarity across adjacent infrastructure domains.

- Hands-on experience with cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and the ability to optimize cost, performance, and scalability.

- A strong sense of ownership and the ability to balance short-term priorities with long-term strategic goals.

## Compensation

- The estimated pay range for this role is $212,000 - $280,000.

- Additionally, this role is 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 (Standard & Supplemental Available)

- Empower 401K Plan

- Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!

## Skills

### Required
- network traffic management
- network optimization
- cloud orchestration
- Go
- Java
- distributed systems
- concurrency primitives
- network performance
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure

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