Software Engineer 2, Compute
About the role
Summary
As a Software Engineer 2, you are 2-5 years post-graduation and want to grow and learn while impacting Temporal's scalable platform. You will design, build, and maintain meaningful portions of our backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services.
Software Engineer, Compute Team (Temporal Cloud)
Temporal powers durable execution for the world’s most demanding AI and enterprise systems. The Compute team at Temporal makes that durability feel effortless by building the managed compute primitives that run workers and other execution systems across Temporal Cloud.
We’re solving a hard platform problem: make compute transparent, elastic, safe-by-default, observable, and multi-cloud — without turning customers into infrastructure operators. We build platform primitives that span a variety of execution environments (e.g., serverless-style runtimes, containerized fleets, and customer-controlled deployments). Our work sits at the intersection of control plane + data plane: scaling decisions, isolation boundaries, multi-tenant safety, and production-grade observability.
What You'll Do
- Design and implement core backend service features.
- Provide appropriate test coverage unit, integration, and performance for feature ownership areas.
- Document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run services at scale with those features.
- Provide appropriate service level logs and metrics to operationalize features for cloud service setup.
- Provide appropriate alerts, dashboards, and runbooks for production.
Experience You'll Gain
- Learn, contribute, and scale distributed engineering
- Learn a new way of developing software for complex distributed engineering problems
- Learn from and work side-by-side with best-in-class engineers from startups, Uber, Met