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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.\nWe’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. If you’ve built autoscaling systems, multi-tenant platforms, or cloud infrastructure, you’ll find a lot to love here.\nSee the \"Compute team\" link to read more -->Compute Team\nWhat You'll Do\nInvent\nCreate new managed compute primitives that feel first-class in Temporal Cloud: crisp abstractions, clean APIs, and an extension story across compute providers.\n\nDesign self-optimizing autoscaling systems (signals, backstops, debouncing, guardrails) that scale worker fleets safely and predictably.\n\nDefine the Open Source Server ↔ Cloud boundary for compute capabilities, keeping the architecture cohesive and maintainable.\n\nOwn\nArchitect, build, and operate services on the hot path of task execution where performance and correctness are customer-visible.\n\nDeliver real-world cloud integrations (e.g., customer-account execution): IAM boundaries, secure credentials handling, networking constraints, quotas, and failure modes.\n\nMake operability a feature: SLOs, tracing/metrics, load and failure testing, incident reviews, and continuous hardening.\n\nShip end-to-end: API design, rollout strategy, backwards compatibility, and long-term maintenance.\n\nTeach\nRaise the bar through design docs, strong reviews, pragmatic technical leadership, and mentorship.\n\nLead through influence across teams (Server, SDKs, Security, Control Plane) to land coherent platform changes.\n\nWhat You'll Bring\nSignificant experience building distributed systems or multi-tenant platform services (design, implementation, and production operations).\n\nStrong systems fundamentals: concurrency, performance, reliability, and failure-mode thinking.\n\nA record of shipping platform primitives used by other engineers/customers (APIs, control planes, data planes).\n\nComfort owning outcomes: SLOs, incident response, and improving on-call quality over time.\n\nExcellent written communication and crisp tradeoff thinking. (Go experience is a plus; judgment matters most.)\n\nNice to Have\nExperience building cloud infrastructure platforms.\n\nExperience with IAM/security boundaries for cross-account execution models.\n\nHaving built Kubernetes controllers / CRDs or heterogeneous worker fleet operations.\n\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.\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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