# Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Capacity at Temporal

- Company: Temporal
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Remote
- Location: United States (Remote) · Remote · San Francisco, California
- Level: Senior
- Discipline: Backend
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $141K–231K
- Posted: 2026-10-13
- Skills: Cloud
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/temporal/a60877d2-e825-4e0f-9f36-230352a9f193

## Description

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 conta

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