Staff Software Engineer, Release Engineering & Testing Platform

Who We Are

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. Our amazing user community provides us with real-time feedback and contributions to improve the developer experience everywhere.

Backed by top VC firms, we have built a team of professionals from various successful start-ups and well-known technology companies. Together, we collaborate cross-functionally, engage with and support our users to improve the developer experience, deliver world-class open-source software, and enhance our commercial SaaS platform.

Temporal is growing and working towards building the best community. We are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for helping developer communities, open-source software, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!

Summary

We have an opening for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Developer Productivity Team, with a dedicated focus on building and scaling our release engineering and testing platform. This team’s mission is to make Temporal developers faster, more reliable, and more effective. As a Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership, design vision, and hands-on implementation for the systems that enable reliable, automated, and high-confidence releases of Temporal’s core platforms and services. You’ll also drive the strategy and evolution of our internal testing frameworks to ensure quality at scale.

This is an opportunity to set the direction for a mission-critical team that acts as a force multiplier across the company. We are passionate engineers who care deeply about empowering our peers and building the foundation for developer productivity.

What You’ll Do

Build & Lead

• Define and own the technical strategy for Temporal’s release engineering and testing platforms, ensuring they scale with the company.
• Design, implement, and evolve automation for CI/CD, release validation, regression testing, and deployment.
• Build frameworks and tooling that enable developers to test, validate, and ship with confidence.
• Lead technical planning and establish best practices for release reliability and testing at scale.
• Document design choices, workflows, and operational practices to ensure sustainable adoption across teams.

Own & Guide

• Set a high bar for technical excellence in release engineering and testing platforms.
• Design and build multi-component, distributed systems that operate at scale.
• Drive root-cause analysis and resolution of issues across the release stack.
• Anticipate performance and reliability tradeoffs of design options and guide the team in making pragmatic choices.
• Mentor engineers across the organization in release automation and testing best practices.
• Able to participate in the team’s on-call rotation.

Learn & Influence

• Stay ahead of emerging practices in release engineering, testing, and developer productivity.
• Develop deep expertise in Temporal’s architecture to design testing frameworks that reflect real-world complexity.
• Investigate and understand ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power our mission.
• Understand developer needs across the company and influence tooling strategies to maximize velocity and confidence.

Collaborate

• Partner with engineering leadership to align release engineering strategy with company goals.
• Work across teams to design scalable release processes and testing strategies.
• Advocate for system reliability and developer experience in cross-functional discussions.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience providing technical leadership in developer tooling, release engineering, or large-scale testing frameworks.
• Strong opinions on release engineering and testing practices that are equally balanced by a pragmatic drive for impact.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement CI/CD systems, release automation, and testing infrastructure at scale.
• Proficiency in Go (required) with experience building and maintaining production systems.
• Track record of mentoring and guiding engineers to elevate technical standards.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, self-directed environment with strong communication and collaboration skills.

Compensation

• The estimated pay range for this role is $170,000 - $250,000, depending on qualifications and location.
• This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.

Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded.

U.S. 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!

International Benefits

• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com

. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.

Additional Perks

• $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
• $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
• $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
• $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
• $500 / Year Professional Memberships
• $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
• Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness

Temporal 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.

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