Temporal is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive the technical strategy, execution, and leadership of projects across traffic management, network optimization, and cloud orchestration to significantly impact the scalability, reliability, and operational excellence of Temporal's networking infrastructure.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading complex engineering efforts focused on network traffic management, network optimization, and cloud orchestration.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
Other
- 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.
- A strong sense of ownership and the ability to balance short-term priorities with long-term strategic goals.
- 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.
