Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud Data Store

Temporal Technologies (Headquarters: United States - WORK FROM HOME)

Go Python Java Cloud Storage Databases Distributed Systems AWS GCP Azure Pulumi Terraform Cloud Formation Kubernetes Infrastructure Scalability Reliability Cloud Data Store Back End Engineer Data Engineer Staff Engineer

**About Temporal Technologies:**
Temporal offers an entirely new way to build scalable and reliable applications. Temporal enables developers to focus on writing important business logic, and not on managing state or worrying about the underlying infrastructure. Sequoia Capital led our last round of funding and our team has experience from start-ups and larger companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Uber, and more.
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. Our amazing user community provides us with real-time feedback and contributions to improve the developer experience everywhere. Backed by top VC firms, we have built a team of professionals from various successful start-ups and well-known technology companies. Together, we collaborate cross-functionally, engage with and support our users to improve the developer experience, deliver world-class open-source software, and enhance our commercial SaaS platform.
We are committed to being user-obsessed, focusing on understanding and meeting developers’ needs. Dependability is at the core of everything we do. We prioritize employee wellbeing with competitive salaries, equity options, and a comprehensive benefits package. We embrace a remote-first culture with flexible schedules.
Join us on our mission to transform how applications are built.

**US Benefits Include:**
Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays, 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision, AD&D, LT & ST Disability and Life Insurance , Empower 401K Plan, Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!


**About The Role:**
We’re hiring a Staff Software Infrastructure Engineer to join our Cloud Data Store team, where we’re reimagining cloud storage and building a customized persistence layer tailored specifically for Temporal. We’re solving hard distributed systems problems related to databases and the way storage works for the cloud. The charter of the CDS (Cloud Data Store) team is to increase the reliability, and scalability and reduce COGS of running Cloud Temporal.

**What You'll Do / Responsibilities:**
Invent:
Build systems that optimize cloud use and scale for expansion.
Contribute to Cloud Data Store system architecture and execution.
Continue to maintain and foster a culture of engineering and operational excellence.
Own:
Develop effective partnerships across Cloud Data Store teams.
Perform design reviews for multiple projects with a focus on infrastructure scalability and reliability.
Engage with stakeholders and customers to help understand their requirements and enable their business.
Learn:
Investigate and understand the ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power infrastructure at scale.
Get educated as to Temporal's customer needs that drive infrastructure design decisions.
Collaborate:
Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale.
Learn and help others get better while you grow.

**What You'll Bring / Requirements / Qualifications:**
Experience contributing to complex cross-team engineering efforts focused on cloud, compute, networking and storage infrastructure.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
You are comfortable driving alignment across an organization and contributing to long-term roadmaps.
Demonstrated ability to make system-level tradeoffs.
At least 7 years coding experience (Go, Python, Java, or other applicable language) and experience writing concurrent code.
Experience designing and running highly available and fault-tolerant systems.
Hands-on experience with networking, security controls, compute, block storage, and object storage services provided by AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Experience working with infrastructure as code tools such as Pulumi, Terraform, or Cloud Formation.
Kubernetes management experience is essential and operator development experience is a plus.
Experience working with databases.

**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.