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You’ll build platforms and tooling that enable teams to reproduce and prevent the kinds of issues that only emerge from complex interactions between workload, scale, configuration, and multi-tenant behavior.\nWhat You'll Do\nBuild production-like test environments: Design and evolve tooling that makes it easy for engineers to spin up test cells that resemble production topology, configuration, and behavior, in partnership with Cloud/Infrastructure.\n\nEnable production-representative workloads: Build capabilities for workload generation, multi-tenant testing, stress/load testing, and (where appropriate) traffic replay or replay-like systems to reproduce production behaviors in controlled environments.\n\nMake failure-mode testing repeatable: Create tooling for injecting and validating failure conditions (latency, dependency faults, resource exhaustion, degraded-state recovery, and region-level failure scenarios) so we test them deliberately-not just learn from production.\n\nDrive system-level test coverage: Identify high-impact system-level scenarios that are currently hard to test, and implement (or partner with the right teams to implement) repeatable coverage that’s incorporated into continuous and/or release validation.\n\nBuild shared frameworks and paved paths: Provide opinionated libraries, harnesses, and patterns that make it easier for product teams to write high-quality system and integration tests consistently.\n\nRaise the technical bar through leadership: Mentor engineers and influence testing strategy across the org through design docs, code reviews, and cross-team collaboration.\n\nPartner across Engineering: Work closely with Reliability and Release Engineering to turn incident learnings into durable pre-production test coverage and to integrate validations into the release pipeline.\n\nWhat You'll Bring\nStrong software engineering fundamentals and experience building and operating production-quality systems (platforms, infrastructure, developer tooling, or distributed systems).\n\nDemonstrated technical leadership: leading ambiguous, cross-team initiatives; driving alignment; and delivering durable systems that other teams rely on.\n\nExperience designing for observability, debuggability, and operational readiness (metrics, logs, tracing, safe rollouts, and failure analysis).\n\nComfort working across organizational boundaries-collaborating with Cloud/Infrastructure, Reliability, Release Engineering, and product teams to land outcomes.\n\nStrong written communication skills (design docs, testing strategy proposals, and documentation that scales adoption).\n\nNice to Haves\nExperience with chaos engineering, fault injection, workload replay/shadowing, performance testing, or multi-tenant test strategy.\n\nExperience building internal platforms used broadly across an engineering org (paved roads, self-serve environments, shared frameworks).\n\nFamiliarity with measuring engineering/system outcomes (e.g., signal quality, coverage gaps closed, incident-to-coverage time, adoption).\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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