Temporal Technologies
The Staff Engineer role at Temporal involves designing, building, and maintaining backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services, specifically owning the custom persistence stack for Temporal Cloud. This position focuses on creating distributed data systems that ensure petabytes of workflow history are durable and queryable while driving reliability and performance through SLOs and incident reviews. The role requires technical leadership, mentoring mid-level engineers, and collaborating across server, cloud, and developer experience teams to deliver features end-to-end.
Headquarters
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Company Size
51-200 employees
Founded
2019
Temporal provides an open-source durable execution platform for building reliable, stateful, long-running applications and orchestrating microservices. It handles common distributed-systems complexity — retries, state persistence, timers, and error handling — so teams can ship features faster and make apps resilient to failures. Temporal is available as self-hosted software and a managed cloud service, with SDKs for popular languages and tooling for observability and scaling. Developers choose Temporal for its fault-tolerance, scalability, and improved developer productivity when implementing complex workflows.
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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