Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Capacity
Temporal
Remote · San Francisco, CA · $176k–$231k a year · Posted October 13, 2026
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About the job
SUMMARY
The Cloud Capacity team plays a critical role in ensuring the Temporal Cloud is scalable, efficient, and reliable for our customers’ most important workloads. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll lead high-impact initiatives to build systems that intelligently manage and forecast resource needs, directly influencing our infrastructure efficiency, customer experience, and platform cost strategy.
What You'll Do
- Drive the technical vision and roadmap for Temporal’s Cloud Capacity systems in partnership with engineering and product leadership.
- Design and implement infrastructure to track resource utilization, forecast consumption, and support automated capacity planning at scale.
- Lead development of a resource manager that optimizes infrastructure efficiency based on usage trends, cost insights, and evolving customer needs.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Cloud Infrastructure, and Finance to inform business-critical decisions around provisioning, pricing, and scaling.
- Guide long-term strategy to support intelligent autoscaling, workload isolation, and predictable performance in a multi-tenant cloud environment.
What You'll Bring
- Proven experience contributing to large-scale infrastructure efforts spanning cloud compute, storage, and networking systems.
- Strong product and operational intuition around managing cloud costs, utilization tracking, and workload forecasting.
- A track record of designing distributed systems and services in a production cloud environment (preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes) and the surrounding ecosystem.
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills—you influence through clarity, and you bring others along for the journey.
- Comfortable aligning cross-functional stakeholders on complex infrastructure problems, including executives and finance partners.
- 7+ years of experience building production software using Go, Java, or similar languages.
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