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Lead the development of systems for temperature cloud resource management, optimizing efficiency and forecasting resource needs with cross-functional collaboration.
About Us
Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.
Our values guide us —they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We’re curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
Summary
The Cloud Capacity team plays a critical role in ensuring the Temporal Cloud is scalable, efficient, and reliable for our customers’ most important workloads. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll lead high-impact initiatives to build systems that intelligently manage and forecast resource needs, directly influencing our infrastructure efficiency, customer experience, and platform cost strategy.
What You'll Do
- Drive the technical vision and roadmap for Temporal’s Cloud Capacity systems in partnership with engineering and product leadership.
- Design and implement infrastructure to track resource utilization, forecast consumption, and support automated capacity planning at scale.
- Lead development of a resource manager that optimizes infrastructure efficiency based on usage trends, cost insights, and evolving customer needs.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Cloud Infrastructure, and Finance to inform business-critical decisions around provisioning, pricing, and scaling.
- Guide long-term strategy to support intelligent autoscaling, workload isolation, and predictable performance in a multi-tenant cloud environment.
What You'll Bring
- Proven experience contributing to large-scale infrastructure efforts spanning cloud compute, storage, and networking systems.
- Strong product and operational intuition around managing cloud costs, utilization tracking, and workload forecasting.
- A track record of designing distributed systems and services in a production cloud environment (preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes) and the surrounding ecosystem.
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills—you influence through clarity, and you bring others along for the journey.
- Comfortable aligning cross-functional stakeholders on complex infrastructure problems, including executives and finance partners.
- 6+ years of experience building production software using Go, Java, or similar languages.
Compensation
- The estimated pay range for this role is $170,000 - $250,000.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.
Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded.
U.S. 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, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
International Benefits
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
Travel
Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
Additional Perks
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
- $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
- $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
- $500 / Year Professional Memberships
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
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.
We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
GCP
Go
Java
Kubernetes
Temporal Technologies Bellevue, Washington, USA Office
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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