# Staff Software Engineer, Replication Foundations at Temporal

- Company: Temporal
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Remote
- Location: United States (Remote) · Remote · Seattle, Washington
- Level: Staff
- Discipline: Backend
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $170K–278K
- Posted: 2026-09-28
- Skills: Temporal, Distributed Systems
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/temporal/dc4021c5-b1d0-49a8-8342-6c68969192b5

## Description

ROLE SUMMARY

We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the Replication Foundations team within Temporal’s Cloud Global Services (CGS) organization.

Replication Foundations owns and evolves Temporal’s core replication stack in Temporal OSS—the distributed systems backbone behind key Temporal Cloud capabilities such as High Availability namespaces, cross-cluster and cross-region failover, and migration products that enable customers to move workloads between self-hosted Temporal and Temporal Cloud. The team also builds foundational scalability and reliability mechanisms that support Temporal at scale.

In this role, you’ll help set the technical direction for Temporal’s distributed replication systems. You’ll lead complex, correctness-critical initiatives spanning architecture, design, implementation, rollout, and operations. You’ll work across teams to evolve reliable and scalable replication capabilities that support both the open source project and Temporal Cloud.

 


WHAT YOU'LL DO

 - Set the technical direction and evolve the architecture of Temporal’s OSS replication stack, from problem definition through rollout and operational support.

 - Lead the design and implementation of replication protocols that power:

 - High Availability namespaces

 - Cross-cluster and cross-region replication

 - Migration between Temporal clusters, including cloud-to-self-hosted and cloud-to-cloud scenarios

 - Drive scalability and reliability initiatives such as:

 - Multi-cell namespaces

 - Enabling a namespace to span multiple clusters

 - Improving load distribution and ha

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