{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"8fe8d1d9660de188feb30b83","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8fe8d1d9660de188feb30b83","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8fe8d1d9660de188feb30b83","title":"Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage","description":"About Us\r\nTemporal 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.\r\nOur 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.\r\nTemporal 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!\r\nSummary\r\nCloud Data Store (CDS) owns the storage, retrieval, and lifecycle of all workflow data at planet scale. We design the persistence APIs, build storage abstractions that run across cloud vendors, and deliver the observability that lets customers trust their state machines for years. [To see more detail re: the Temporal CDS Eng team, click here] As a Senior Software Engineer , you will get the chance to design, build, and maintain significant portions of our backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services. You'll own the custom persistence stack for Temporal Cloud which includes a Write Ahead Log, various metadata stores (Cassandra, etcd), multi-level caches, tiered storage etc.\r\nWhat You'll Do\r\nDesign & build distributed data systems – craft APIs, schemas, and replication paths that keep petabytes of workflow history durable and query-able. Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run service with those features.\r\nDrive reliability & performance – own SLOs, create chaos-test plans, profile hot paths, and lead incident reviews.\r\nTechnical leadership – break down roadmap epics, mentor mid-level engineers, steward design docs through RFC.\r\nCross-team collaboration – partner with the Server, Cloud, and DX teams to land features end-to-end.\r\nWhat You'll Bring\r\n5 or more years of experience as an \"Arranger\" and/or \"Builder/Enhancer\" of highly scalable distributed systems. see HERE for more info re: \"Arranger\" and/or \"Builder/Enhancer\"\r\nSolid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts including multi-threading and concurrency.\r\nExperience writing concurrent code in production with languages like Go or Java or other applicable languages with skill level as \"high end of Intermediate\" and/or \"Advanced\" or \"Expert\" levels. see HERE for more info re: \"high end of Intermediate\" and/or \"Advanced\" or \"Expert levels\"\r\nExperience building and running services on AWS. Bonus: Microsoft Azure and Google GCP experience.\r\nNice to Have\r\nPrior contributions to Temporal, Cadence, or other workflow engines.\r\nDeep expertise in a storage domain (LSM trees, columnar stores, transactional logs, etc.).\r\nOperated multi-region, =99.99 % uptime services.\r\nExperience working with Open Source Systems.\r\nExperience in building K8s controllers and/or CRDs is a plus\r\nCompensation\r\nThe estimated pay range for this role is $176,000 - $237,600.\r\nAdditionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.\r\nCompensation 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.\r\nEmployee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded.\r\nU.S. Benefits\r\nUnlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays\r\n100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision\r\nAD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)\r\nEmpower 401K Plan\r\nAdditional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!\r\nInternational Benefits\r\nPaid 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.\r\nTravel\r\nTemporal 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.\r\nAdditional Perks\r\n$3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals\r\n$1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)\r\n$1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account\r\n$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)\r\n$74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet\r\nCalm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness\r\nTemporal 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.\r\nTemporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. 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[To see more detail re: the Temporal CDS Eng team, click here] As a Senior Software Engineer , you will get the chance to design, build, and maintain significant portions of our backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services. You'll own the custom persistence stack for Temporal Cloud which includes a Write Ahead Log, various metadata stores (Cassandra, etcd), multi-level caches, tiered storage etc.\r\nWhat You'll Do\r\nDesign & build distributed data systems – craft APIs, schemas, and replication paths that keep petabytes of workflow history durable and query-able. Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run service with those features.\r\nDrive reliability & performance – own SLOs, create chaos-test plans, profile hot paths, and lead incident reviews.\r\nTechnical leadership – break down roadmap epics, mentor mid-level engineers, steward design docs through RFC.\r\nCross-team collaboration – partner with the Server, Cloud, and DX teams to land features end-to-end.\r\nWhat You'll Bring\r\n5 or more years of experience as an \"Arranger\" and/or \"Builder/Enhancer\" of highly scalable distributed systems. see HERE for more info re: \"Arranger\" and/or \"Builder/Enhancer\"\r\nSolid computer science fundamentals in distributed systems concepts including multi-threading and concurrency.\r\nExperience writing concurrent code in production with languages like Go or Java or other applicable languages with skill level as \"high end of Intermediate\" and/or \"Advanced\" or \"Expert\" levels. see HERE for more info re: \"high end of Intermediate\" and/or \"Advanced\" or \"Expert levels\"\r\nExperience building and running services on AWS. 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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.\r\nTravel\r\nTemporal 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.\r\nAdditional Perks\r\n$3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals\r\n$1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)\r\n$1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account\r\n$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)\r\n$74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet\r\nCalm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness\r\nTemporal 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.\r\nTemporal 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.\r\nWe are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.\r\nJ-18808-Ljbffr","datePosted":"2026-05-27T00:33:28.642Z","dateModified":"2026-05-27T00:33:28.642Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Temporal Technologies","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"New York","addressRegion":"NY","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"8fe8d1d9660de188feb30b83"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8fe8d1d9660de188feb30b83"}}