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Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Capacity
Location
United States
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
$176K - $237K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
About Us
Summary
The Cloud Capacity team plays a critical role in ensuring Temporal Cloud is scalable, efficient, and reliable for our customers’ most important workloads. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll design and build systems that help manage and forecast resource needs, improving infrastructure efficiency, customer experience, and platform cost effectiveness.
What You'll Do
- Design and implement systems to track resource utilization, forecast consumption, and support capacity planning at scale
- Build and evolve components of a resource manager that improves infrastructure efficiency based on usage patterns and cost insights
- Contribute to autoscaling, workload isolation, and performance improvements in a multi-tenant cloud environment
- Partner with engineers across Cloud Infrastructure, Product, and other teams to deliver scalable and reliable solutions
- Participate in design discussions, propose technical approaches, and contribute to long-term improvements of capacity systems
- Debug and resolve production issues, improving system reliability and operational excellence
What You'll Bring
- Experience building and operating distributed systems in a production cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Strong understanding of infrastructure systems including compute, storage, and networking fundamentals
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Ability to reason about system performance, scalability, and reliability tradeoffs
- Solid coding skills in Go, Java, or similar languages
- Effective collaborator who communicates clearly and works well across teams
- 4–7+ years of experience building production software
Compensation
The estimated pay range for this role is $176,000 - $237,000 depending on experience and location.
Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
- 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!
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.
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
- $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)
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
Job Requirements
- Experience building and operating distributed systems in a production cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Strong understanding of infrastructure systems including compute, storage, and networking fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes).
- Ability to reason about system performance, scalability, and reliability tradeoffs.
- Solid coding skills in Go, Java, or similar languages.
- Effective collaborator who communicates clearly and works well across teams.
- 4–7+ years of experience building production software.
- The estimated pay range for this role is $176,000 - $237,000 depending on experience and location.
- 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.
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!
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