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Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Foundations

Build systems that optimize cloud use and scale for expansion

As a Senior Software Engineer on Temporal's Infrastructure Foundations team, you will build systems that optimize cloud use and scale for expansion. You will contribute to system architecture and execution, co-author roadmaps for infrastructure scalability and reliability, and maintain a culture of engineering excellence. You will also develop partnerships across engineering and product teams, perform design reviews focused on scalability and ...

Why This Role?

Co-author roadmaps establishing the vision for infrastructure scalability and reliability

Key Responsibilities

  • Build systems that optimize cloud use and scale for expansion
  • Contribute to system architecture and execution
  • Co-author roadmaps establishing the vision for infrastructure scalability, reliability, and engineering velocity
  • Develop effective partnerships across engineering and product teams
  • Perform design reviews for multiple projects with a focus on infrastructure scalability and reliability
  • Partner with Security to build 'secure by default' systems

Requirements

  • Experience contributing to complex cross-team engineering efforts focused on cloud, compute, networking and storage infrastructure
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills
  • Comfortable driving alignment across an organization and contributing to long-term roadmaps
  • Demonstrated ability to make system-level tradeoffs
  • At least 10 years coding experience (Go, Java, or other applicable language) and experience writing concurrent code
  • Experience designing distributed systems and using concurrency primitives

Required Skills

cloud infrastructuresystem architecturegojavaawsgcpcommunicationdistributed systemsconcurrencycollaborationroadmapping
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Original description from Ashby Job Boards

ROLE SUMMARY We have an opening for a Senior Software Infrastructure Engineer in our Infrastructure team focused on driving technical strategy, alignment and execution of projects across compute, networking, cloud orchestration, and observability. This is an opportunity to join an engineering team focused on improving the scalability and reliability of Temporal’s core infrastructure. In this role, you will be the SME and build critical systems to identify and reduce costs as we optimize for scale in the cloud.    WHAT YOU'LL DO Invent - Build systems that optimize cloud use and scale for expansion. - Contribute to system architecture and execution. - Co-author roadmaps establishing the vision for infrastructure scalability, reliability, and engineering velocity. - Continue to maintain and foster a culture of engineering and operational excellence. Own - Develop effective partnerships across engineering and product teams. - Collaborate across teams to keep roadmaps aligned. - Perform design reviews for multiple projects with a focus on infrastructure scalability and reliability. - Partner with Security to build ‘secure by default’ systems. - 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 - 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 10 years coding experience (Go, Java, or other applicable language) and experience writing concurrent code. - Experience designing distributed systems and using concurrency primitives. - Deep experience in at least one infrastructure and familiarity with adjacencies. - Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure. 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.

Salary Context

Similar Engineering roles on LokerDollar pay around $190k/yr (range $13.4k–450k/yr, n=375 active listings).

Hiring at Temporal

Temporal has 21 other active roles on LokerDollar and has been hiring here since Sep 7, 2026 — across Engineering.

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Market context

  • VERIFIEDStated pay is 2% below the role median of $190,000/year (n=375 pay-disclosing listings).
  • VERIFIEDTemporal: 51 postings in the last 3 months, 51 all-time on LokerDollar.
  • VERIFIEDCompany first seen Sep 7, 2026.
  • VERIFIEDThis listing first seen Sep 29, 2026.
  • VERIFIEDLast verified live Sep 29, 2026.

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Company
Temporal
Salary
$140.8k–231k/yr
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Job Type
full time
Location
Seattle, USA · Remote
Category
Seniority
senior
PostedNew & verified
Aug 12, 2026

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