Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Capacity

Temporal Technologies
Seattle +1 more
Remote

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for engineers with deep infrastructure experience who lead technical vision and cross-functional collaboration, particularly in cloud environments and capacity planning.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in large-scale cloud infrastructure and distributed systems design
    — “Proven experience contributing to large-scale infrastructure efforts spanning cloud compute, storage, and networking systems.”
  • Individuals who have experience with container orchestration and cloud ecosystems
    — “Hands-on experience with container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes) and the surrounding ecosystem.”
  • Candidates comfortable with strategic collaboration across engineering, product, and finance teams
    — “Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Cloud Infrastructure, and Finance to inform business-critical decisions.”

Things to consider

  • The role expects a long-term commitment to shaping infrastructure strategy and execution
    — “Drive the technical vision and roadmap for Temporal’s Cloud Capacity systems.”
  • Candidates must be able to align with executives and finance partners on complex issues
    — “Comfortable aligning cross-functional stakeholders on complex infrastructure problems, including executives and finance partners.”

How to stand out

  • Emphasize leadership in capacity planning and cost optimization initiatives in your resume
    — “Design and implement infrastructure to track resource utilization, forecast consumption, and support automated capacity planning at scale.”
  • Showcase experience in forecasting and managing cloud workloads in a multi-tenant environment
    — “Guide long-term strategy to support intelligent autoscaling, workload isolation, and predictable performance in a multi-tenant cloud environment.”
  • Highlight your ability to influence business decisions through technical clarity
    — “Exceptional collaboration and communication skills—you influence through clarity, and you bring others along for the journey.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • successful implementation of cloud capacity systems
  • optimized infrastructure efficiency
  • informed business decisions
Typical background
software engineeringcloud infrastructure

Skills & requirements

Required

Cloud InfrastructureResource ManagementCapacity PlanningDistributed SystemsProduction Software Development

Preferred

Cloud Cost ManagementWorkload Forecasting

Stack & domain

Cloud ComputingInfrastructureResource ManagementForecastingCapacity PlanningDistributed SystemsContainer OrchestrationGoJavaLeadershipCollaborationCommunicationCloud InfrastructureMulti-tenant CloudProduction Software

About the role

Original posting from Temporal Technologies via Ashby

SUMMARY

The Cloud Capacity team plays a critical role in ensuring the Temporal Cloud is scalable, efficient, and reliable for our customers’ most important workloads. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll lead high-impact initiatives to build systems that intelligently manage and forecast resource needs, directly influencing our infrastructure efficiency, customer experience, and platform cost strategy.

What You'll Do

  • Drive the technical vision and roadmap for Temporal’s Cloud Capacity systems in partnership with engineering and product leadership.
  • Design and implement infrastructure to track resource utilization, forecast consumption, and support automated capacity planning at scale.
  • Lead development of a resource manager that optimizes infrastructure efficiency based on usage trends, cost insights, and evolving customer needs.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Cloud Infrastructure, and Finance to inform business-critical decisions around provisioning, pricing, and scaling.
  • Guide long-term strategy to support intelligent autoscaling, workload isolation, and predictable performance in a multi-tenant cloud environment.

What You'll Bring

  • Proven experience contributing to large-scale infrastructure efforts spanning cloud compute, storage, and networking systems.
  • Strong product and operational intuition around managing cloud costs, utilization tracking, and workload forecasting.
  • A track record of designing distributed systems and services in a production cloud environment (preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Hands-on experience with container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes) and the surrounding ecosystem.
  • Exceptional collaboration and communication skills—you influence through clarity, and you bring others along for the journey.
  • Comfortable aligning cross-functional stakeholders on complex infrastructure problems, including executives and finance partners.
  • 7+ years of experience building production software using Go, Java, or similar languages.

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.

Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.

Source: Temporal Technologies careers (Ashby)

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