Staff Software Engineer, Traffic
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Role Summary ----------------
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Traffic team, where you will play a key role in driving the technical strategy, execution, and leadership of projects across traffic management, network optimization, and cloud orchestration. This is an exciting opportunity to significantly impact the scalability, reliability, and operational excellence of Temporal’s networking infrastructure, while also mentoring and guiding the team.
What You'll Do --------------
Invent
- Lead the design and development of systems that optimize network traffic and scale for global expansion.
- Drive architectural decisions for high-impact projects, ensuring scalability and reliability.
- Co-author long-term technical roadmaps that set the vision for network scalability, performance, and engineering velocity.
- Set the standard for a culture of engineering and operational excellence.
Own
- Build and nurture effective partnerships across engineering, product, and security teams to align on network infrastructure goals.
- Lead and conduct design reviews for critical projects with a focus on system-level tradeoffs and network scalability.
- Drive the design and implementation of “secure by default” network systems in collaboration with security teams.
- Act as a key stakeholder by engaging with customers and internal teams to understand business requirements and deliver innovative solutions.
Learn
- Deeply understand how to leverage Temporal’s software to build and scale networking infrastructure.
- Gather insights into customer needs and incorporate them into technical decision-making for traffic management and networking strategies.
- Stay at the forefront of technology advancements in traffic management, networking, and cloud orchestration.
Collaborate
- Mentor and guide engineers, sharing best practices and design principles for building reliable and scalable networking systems.
- Drive alignment across teams, ensuring roadmaps are cohesive and deliverables are on track.
- Foster a collaborative and growth-oriented environment, helping others improve while continuing to expand your own expertise.
What You'll Bring -----------------
- Proven experience leading complex engineering efforts focused on network traffic management, network optimization, and cloud orchestration.
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to align stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams.
- A track record of contributing to long-term technical roadmaps and making thoughtful system-level tradeoffs.
- At least 8+ years of coding experience in languages like Go, Java, or similar, with strong expertise in writing concurrent and distributed code.
- Extensive experience designing and building distributed systems, leveraging concurrency primitives, and optimizing network performance.
- Deep expertise in traffic and networking systems, with familiarity across adjacent infrastructure domains.
- Hands-on experience with cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and the ability to optimize cost, performance, and scalability.
- A strong sense of ownership and the ability to balance short-term priorities with long-term strategic goals.
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.
About Temporal Technologies
Temporal Technologies enables its users to build and operate resilient applications using developer-friendly primitives.
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