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.