Staff Software Engineer - Test Systems & Tooling
Temporal TechnologiesWorkflow Orchestration company
United States$212,000 - $278,250Lead
Andreessen Horowitz
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Sapphire Ventures
Sequoia Capital
Index Ventures
Tiger Global Management
Software EngineeringNew
About the role
TL;DR
Lead system-level testing initiatives for Temporal's reliability and failure mode validation.
- •Temporal is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead initiatives in building sophisticated system-level testing capabilities.
- •This role is crucial for ensuring Temporal's reliability under production-like conditions and realistic failure modes.
- •Key Responsibilities Design and evolve tooling for production-like test environments.
- •Build capabilities for workload generation, multi-tenant testing, and stress/load testing.
- •Create tooling for injecting and validating failure conditions.
- •Drive system-level test coverage and build shared frameworks.
- •Mentor engineers and influence testing strategy across the organization.
- •Requirements Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production-quality systems.
- •Demonstrated technical leadership in cross-team initiatives.
- •Experience designing for observability, debuggability, and operational readiness.
- •Comfort working across organizational boundaries.
- •Strong written communication skills.
Required skills
CI/CDDockerKubernetesGitLinuxREST APIgRPCk6LocustPythonJavaScriptGoBash
Domain expertise
developer-tools
Benefits & perks
Equity, Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays, 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision, AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance, Empower 401K Plan, Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptGoBashDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitLinuxREST APIgRPCk6Locust