Temporal Technologies

Implement and improve core proxy capabilities, maintain observability, write tests, and collaborate across teams for safe project delivery. | Proficiency in Go or comparable systems language, knowledge of distributed systems and service-to-service communication, familiarity with security fundamentals like mTLS and OAuth, and ability to manage end-to-end project implementation. | Role Summary We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join Temporal’s Cloud Enablement team and help build and improve the Temporal Proxy. This role will focus on implementing core proxy capabilities and helping consolidate multiple proxy implementations into a single, extensible, open-source, and productized solution used by both customers and Temporal Cloud infrastructure. Check out our code here! What You'll Do Implement features in a proxy codebase, contributing production-quality code (primarily in Go or a comparable systems language). Build and improve core components such as request handling, configuration, authentication/authorization integrations, and encryption-related hooks (as defined by the team’s design). Add and maintain observability (logs, metrics, traces) and contribute to debugging issues in staging/production environments. Write and maintain tests (unit/integration) to improve correctness, prevent regressions, and support safe iteration. Collaborate with engineers across CGS, Security, Infra Foundations, and OSS Server to deliver scoped projects and land changes safely. Contribute to developer experience through clear documentation, examples, and small improvements that make the proxy easier to adopt and operate. What You'll Bring Proficiency in Go (preferred) or another systems language, with the ability to ramp quickly into an existing codebase. Working knowledge of service-to-service communication and distributed systems basics (e.g., HTTP/gRPC, reliability fundamentals). Familiarity with security fundamentals such as mTLS, JWT, and OIDC/OAuth concepts, and willingness to learn deeper patterns as needed. Ability to take a scoped problem, implement a solution end-to-end (including testing and documentation), and communicate progress clearly. A collaborative mindset and comfort working with teammates across functions to deliver shared outcomes. Nice to Have Experience with proxy/gateway systems, cloud networking, service mesh concepts, or security-oriented infrastructure. Experience with observability tooling and operational practices (on-call debugging, incident follow-ups, performance testing). Contributions to open source (code or documentation). Familiarity with Temporal concepts (or strong interest in learning the platform). 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.

Design and implement backend features for scalable distributed systems ensuring operational excellence. | 5+ years in scalable distributed systems with proficiency in Go, Java, and cloud platforms like AWS. | Summary As a Staff Engineer, you will get the chance to design, build, and maintain significant portions of our backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services. Examples of the key distributed systems components you’ll own include Quotas, Throttling, Visibility, Task Processing, Matching etc. Working in a highly collaborative team, we’ll look to build a new enterprise offering that will involve both on-premise and dedicated cloud offerings. What You'll Do Design and implement core backend service features. Provide appropriate test coverage for unit, integration, and performance for your feature ownership area. Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run service with those features. Provide appropriate service level logs and metrics to make features operational for cloud service setup. Provide appropriate alerts, dashboards, and runbooks for production. What You'll Bring 5 or more years of experience working with highly scalable distributed systems. Solid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts including multi-threading and concurrency. Experience with Go or Java or other applicable languages. Experience working with Open Source Systems. Experience building systems with technologies like Kafka, Cassandra, MySQL, Elasticsearch. Experience building and running services on AWS. Bonus: Microsoft Azure and Google GCP experience. 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.

Lead technical sales engagements and support customers in adopting and expanding use of Temporal's platform. | Strong development background, deep understanding of distributed systems, pre-sales or solutions architecture experience, and excellent technical communication skills. | Summary Temporal is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to support our Commercial Sales team in a consumption-based business where customer success drives revenue growth. You'll work across the full sales cycle, from initial technical evaluations with new prospects through helping existing customers expand their use of Temporal in production. The nature of our business means you'll spend significant time helping customers who've already adopted Temporal unlock more value by expanding into additional use cases, teams, and workloads. This is a high-velocity, technically deep role. You'll partner with developers, architects, and engineering leaders at fast-moving companies to help them understand how Temporal fits into their existing architecture and prove out value through hands-on technical work. You'll be working in a consumption model where usage grows over time, which means building strong technical relationships and staying engaged with accounts as they scale. As an early member of a growing team, you should be comfortable with ambiguity, frequent context switching, and creating leverage through reusable assets that help the broader team move faster. Must reside in San Francisco, CAWhat You'll Do • Partner with Account Executives throughout the sales cycle to qualify new opportunities, run technical evaluations, and expand production usage with existing customers • Lead technical conversations with developers, architects, and engineering leaders to understand their systems, constraints, and business objectives • Build tailored demos and proof-of-concepts that showcase how Temporal solves specific customer problems, including orchestration of AI and agentic workloads • Deliver enablement sessions that help customer engineering teams adopt Temporal effectively • Create reusable technical assets that accelerate deals and scale the team's impact • Enable the Commercial Sales team by educating AEs on Temporal fundamentals, common patterns, and opportunity qualification • Manage multiple prospects and customers simultaneously, prioritizing effectively across urgent needs and strategic work in a fast-moving environment • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Developer Success to surface field insights that influence the roadmap What You'll Bring • Strong development background with hands-on coding experience in at least one modern language (Go, Java, TypeScript, or Python) • Deep understanding of distributed systems (reliability, observability, and fault tolerance) • Proven experience in a pre-sales, customer-facing engineering, or solutions architecture role working with technical buyers • Exceptional time management and prioritization skills with the ability to thrive in high-volume environments • Enthusiasm for AI/ML technologies and eagerness to learn about emerging use cases in agentic workflows and LLM orchestration • Strong technical communication skills and ability to lead conversations with senior engineers while translating complex concepts for diverse audiences • Comfortable creating structure where there is none Nice to Haves • Experience with workflow engines, event-driven architectures, or orchestration technologies (Temporal, Cadence, or similar) • Background articulating the value of commercial SaaS offerings that compete with open source alternatives (Redis, Kafka, Databricks, etc.) • Contributions to developer tooling, open source projects, or technical content • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with the ability to serve as a technical bridge between customers and internal teams • Certifications with any of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or foundational AI model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google) Compensation • The estimated pay range for this role is $200,000 - $250,000 OTE. • This is a base-salary, variable role with a 70/30 split. • 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 • $1,800 / 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

Build and maintain internal AI developer tooling and partner across teams to standardize workflows and implement safe AI adoption guardrails. | Solid software engineering fundamentals with experience in internal platforms or developer tooling and proficiency in Go, Python, or Java plus familiarity with AI coding tools. | 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 Summary Join our AI Developer Experience Team as a Software Engineer. Our mission is to empower a company of builders by delivering a frictionless, standardized ecosystem of core engineering tools. You'll partner with teams across the company to help standardize workflows and contribute to a tight feedback loop with product leadership that shapes our product direction. What You Will Do Build and maintain internal engineering tooling that improves builder flow and reduces friction across the company. Help support adoption of AI agentic coding tools through documentation, automation, and guidance. Contribute to the development and operation of internally facing agents. Help implement developer workflows, including guardrails and evaluation approaches that enable safe adoption of new tooling. Support the development and operation of our internal agent platform. Partner with teams across Engineering, Product, Sales, and G&A to understand where AI could accelerate their work or improve outcomes. Contribute to measurement and feedback loops (usage, reliability, cost, and cycle time) to help quantify impact and guide iteration. Help maintain documentation and enablement materials that support builders using the paved roads. Participate in on-call to support internal users. What You’ll Bring Solid software engineering fundamentals, with some experience contributing to production-quality internal platforms or developer tooling. Familiarity with modern agentic coding tools such as Codex and Claude Code. Proficiency in one or more programming languages commonly used at Temporal, such as Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, or Java. Experience building or contributing to workflow automation or internal tools (CLI tools, services, GitHub automation, cloud automation, or similar). Good judgment about when to standardize versus when to enable flexibility, with growing ability to balance friction reduction against reliability. Comfort working cross-functionally, including with non-traditional developers, and translating their needs into usable solutions. Ability to use data and qualitative feedback to help prioritize and measure impact. Clear written communication, including documentation that supports self-service. Nice to Have Exposure to building internal agents or supporting an agent platform. Familiarity with developer productivity measurement frameworks such as SPACE and DORA metrics. Compensation The estimated pay range for this role is $160,000 - $200,000. 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 $1,800 / 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 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.