[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer, Replication Foundations @Temporal Technologies

Role Description

We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the Replication Foundations team, part of Temporal’s Cloud Global Services (CGS) organization.

Replication Foundations owns and evolves Temporal’s core replication stack in Temporal OSS—the distributed systems backbone behind key Temporal Cloud capabilities like:

• High Availability namespaces
• Cross-cluster and cross-region failover
• Migration products that let customers move workloads between self-hosted Temporal and Temporal Cloud

The team also drives fundamental scalability and reliability mechanisms that define how Temporal operates at large scale.

At the Staff level, you’ll operate as a technical leader in Temporal’s distributed core:

• Shaping protocols and correctness guarantees
• Leading complex efforts end-to-end
• Raising engineering rigor across replication foundations
• Partnering cross-functionally to ensure OSS primitives unlock current and future cloud products

This role is deeply technical and requires comfort reasoning about:

• Consistency
• Concurrency
• Failure modes
• Performance
• Operational safety in correctness-critical systems

Key outcomes you’ll drive:

• Evolve replication protocols and correctness mechanisms that make failures (and cloud outages) a non-event for customers.
• Deliver scalability primitives (e.g., multi-cell namespaces) that unlock the next phase of Temporal Cloud growth.
• Raise the bar on safety, observability, and operability of Temporal’s replication layer across OSS and cloud.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building production systems, including significant experience with distributed systems and correctness-critical infrastructure.
• Strong experience with replication, consistency, fault tolerance, and failure recovery in distributed environments.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement concurrent, correctness-critical systems with clear invariants and safety guarantees.
• Proven track record of leading complex technical projects across teams—setting direction, driving execution, and landing changes safely in production.
• Hands-on experience debugging complex production issues involving race conditions, data consistency, partial failures, and performance degradation.
• Proficiency writing production-quality concurrent code, preferably in Go (Java/C++ or similar systems languages also welcome).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals such as replication, sharding/partitioning, backpressure, failure detection, and durability mechanisms.
• Ability to operate with high ownership and minimal oversight, balancing deep technical rigor with pragmatic delivery.
• Curiosity and rigor in understanding how systems behave under stress, failure, and scale.

Requirements

• Experience designing or maintaining replication protocols or data-plane infrastructure.
• Experience with multi-cluster or multi-region architectures (active-active / active-passive).
• Familiarity with database internals, log-based replication, or event-sourced systems.
• Prior contributions to large OSS projects or distributed systems infrastructure.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
• 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
• AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
• Empower 401K Plan
• Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!

Company Description

Temporal 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.

Our 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.

Temporal 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!