Software Engineer II, Cloud Applications

Temporal Technologies

3d • $118,400 - $194,250

About The Position

The Software Engineer II will join the Cloud Applications team, which builds and operates critical parts of the Temporal Cloud customer experience, including Namespaces, Audit Logs, and Export. Namespaces provide security boundaries, workflow management, unique identifiers, and dedicated gRPC endpoints. Audit Logs and Export provide customers access to operational and compliance data.

This hands-on role involves collaborating with experienced engineers, product managers, and partner teams to design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines. The engineer will contribute to the scalability, reliability, and developer experience of Temporal Cloud while growing their distributed-systems expertise.

Requirements

• Experience building and operating production backend systems in a cloud environment.
• Proficiency in Go or another applicable backend or systems language, with ability to ramp up in an existing codebase.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, concurrency basics, testing, and debugging.
• Working knowledge of distributed-systems concepts such as reliability, fault tolerance, consistency, scaling, and failure handling.
• Experience with databases, data pipelines, messaging systems, or object storage.
• Ability to take a scoped problem, break it into smaller tasks, implement a solution end to end, and incorporate feedback.
• Operational mindset, including familiarity with logging, metrics, tracing, deployment, and production troubleshooting.
• Comfort collaborating across teams and communicating progress, risks, and technical tradeoffs clearly.
• Commitment to correctness, maintainability, and leaving systems better than found.

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of work experience.
• Experience with Go.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redshift, Kinesis, or Firehose.
• Experience with S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, or other object-storage systems.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience supporting on-call rotations, investigating incidents, or improving production observability.
• Familiarity with Temporal concepts or a strong interest in learning the platform.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and ship well-scoped Temporal Cloud features and improvements with support from teammates.
• Build and improve services supporting namespace provisioning, configuration, scalability, and reliability.
• Develop data pipelines that process high-volume usage and operational data across multiple tenants.
• Make engineering tradeoffs with guidance, balancing data freshness, query cost, tenant isolation, reliability, and operational complexity.
• Improve service operability through tests, instrumentation, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, incident response, and production debugging.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to understand requirements and deliver scoped projects safely.
• Improve developer and customer experience through automation, better tooling, and incremental product improvements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed