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Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Capacity

RemoteRemoteFull TimeSeniorPosted 24 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • cloud compute
  • storage
  • networking systems
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • Go
  • Java
  • resource utilization

Nice to have

  • Temporal Cloud

Role summary

The Cloud Capacity team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead initiatives in building scalable, efficient, and reliable systems for Temporal Cloud. This role involves driving the technical vision and roadmap for cloud capacity systems, designing and implementing infrastructure for resource utilization tracking and forecasting, and leading the development of a resource manager for optimizing efficiency. The engineer will collaborate with Product, Cloud Infrastructure, and Finance teams to inform decisions on provisioning, pricing, and scaling, guiding long-term strategy for autoscaling, workload isolation, and performance in a multi-tenant environment. The ideal candidate has proven experience in large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems design, container orchestration (Kubernetes), cloud cost management, and production cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), with 7+ years of experience in Go, Java, or similar languages.

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 Senior 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.

  • 7+ years of experience building production software using Go, Java, or similar languages.

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.

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