Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform Foundations

Overview In this role you will strengthen Temporal Cloud’s resilience, performance, and developer experience by building and operating core infrastructure. You will own high-availability, disaster-recovery, and control plane automation while enhancing data scalability across PostgreSQL and data pipelines. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to reduce blast radius, improve namespace density, and enable safer CI/CD for a multi-tenant SaaS platform. This is an opportunity to shape scalable, reliable systems that impact revenue and customer lifecycle at a leading cloud-native company. Compensation / Benefitsequity offeredremote-friendly locationscompetitive compensation rangescareer growth and mentorship culture ResponsibilitiesEnable continuous regional failover and improve platform resilience (HA/DR)Automate control plane operations to boost reliability and developer efficiencyScale and optimize the data layer (PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redshift, object storage) for performance and reliabilityRedesign deployment path from commit to production with strong tooling and systems designBuild reliable CI/CD pipelines for safer rollouts and better test coverage Key requirementsBackend engineering experience with cloud/infrastructure focus (ops exposure preferred)Experience on a cloud-based microservices control planeBackground building/operating multi-tenant SaaS applicationsFamiliarity with density-oriented cloud provider architecturesStrong PostgreSQL or equivalent relational DB experienceProven HA design and scale management for compute/trafficBias toward building tools over manual configurationCLI and DevOps fluencycollaborativequality-focusedpragmaticGoPostgreSQLClickHouse