Full-Time
Senior Software Engineer
Cloud Growth
Posted on 8/21/2026
Temporal Technologies
501-1,000 employees
Open-source programming model for reliable apps
Compensation Overview
$176k - $231k/yr
Remote in USA
Remote
Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other in-person occasions.
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- Significant experience designing and delivering production-grade backend systems, ideally in cloud environments, with meaningful ownership over architecture and operational outcomes.
- Strong proficiency in at least one systems or backend language, with Go preferred, and the ability to navigate large codebases and drive technical decisions.
- Demonstrated experience building and operating distributed systems, including concurrency, reliability, scaling, consistency, and failure handling.
- Practical understanding of data pipelines and storage systems, such as PostgreSQL, Redshift, Kafka or Kinesis, and S3-like systems, including how to ensure correctness and traceability.
- Experience integrating and reconciling against third-party SaaS platforms for billing, customer relationship management, support, or analytics, including idempotency, drift detection, and recovery when an upstream system disagrees with the source of truth.
- Experience with production operations, including observability, incident response, performance tuning, on-call readiness, and continuous delivery.
- Ability to work effectively across Finance, Revenue Operations, Sales, and Support by translating ambiguous requirements into clear, executable technical plans.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write design documents, align stakeholders, and explain tradeoffs.
- Own end-to-end technical design and delivery for services that power customer acquisition, onboarding and offboarding, and revenue operations.
- Define and evolve system architecture for high-throughput, fault-tolerant metering and billing pipelines, making tradeoffs across correctness, latency, cost, and operability.
- Partner with Finance, Revenue Operations, and Sales to translate business needs into robust, scalable systems, anticipate edge cases, ensure auditability, and align stakeholders on milestones and risks.
- Build account lifecycle flows covering acquisition, activation, expansion, billing, suspension, dunning, and clean offboarding, including self-service and operator-initiated onboarding and plan or SKU changes.
- Own integrations and pipelines that reconcile control-plane state with customer relationship management, support, analytics, and business intelligence systems.
- Design APIs and metrics surfaces for customer usage and cost transparency, including usage APIs, cost reporting, and billable-action metrics with accuracy and latency guarantees.
- Build and operate distributed data systems with strong correctness guarantees, and implement monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks for revenue-impacting pipelines.
- Set quality standards through code reviews, design reviews, and operational readiness, and introduce patterns and tooling that improve maintainability and incident response.
- Mentor engineers, unblock execution, and foster a culture of ownership, learning, and pragmatic excellence.
- Identify opportunities to streamline customer flows through automation, better tooling, and targeted platform improvements that reduce friction and support load.
- A builder mindset focused on simplifying complex workflows, improving tooling, and leaving systems better than they were found.
Temporal Technologies provides an open-source programming model and cloud platform to help developers build reliable, scalable distributed applications. Its core product is an open-source workflow orchestration system, with Temporal Cloud offering a managed, scalable runtime for running those workflows in production. Developers define workflows and activities, while Temporal handles timing, retries, state persistence, and event-driven execution, making code easier to write and enabling easier problem observation through a central Workflow ID in the UI. It differentiates itself by focusing on an open-source model and a shared, scalable runtime that supports both individual developers and large enterprises, with the goal of reducing code, improving reliability, and speeding feature delivery.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Series E
Total Funding
$1.1B
Headquarters
Bellevue, Washington
Founded
2019
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- February 17, 2026, Temporal raised $300 million from a16z, Sequoia, and Lightspeed.
- August 19, 2026 reporting showed talks for roughly $500 million at $12 billion valuation.
- Headcount reached 466 by March 2026, while 95-plus jobs show active hiring.
What critics are saying
- August 19, 2026 Bloomberg said the $12 billion round remains unclosed and terms can slip.
- Hyperscalers can bundle workflow orchestration into native agent stacks, compressing Temporal Cloud margins by 2027.
- Open-source adoption creates pricing pressure; if agentic-AI demand cools, revenue growth stalls fast.
What makes Temporal Technologies unique
- Temporal’s durable execution runtime survives crashes, retries, and long-running workflow failures.
- Open-source Temporal drives adoption; Temporal Cloud monetizes enterprises needing managed reliability and support.
- July 2026 OpenBox integration adds runtime governance, authorization, and audit trails for AI agents.
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Growth & Insights and Company News
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↓ -4%Temporal Technologies Inc. is in talks for a fresh funding round that would give the AI startup a valuation of at least $12 billion before the new money, according to people familiar with the efforts.
Temporal hits $12B as orchestration becomes essential infrastructure. Today's tech news centers on massive infrastructure investments, regulatory wins for developers, and an industry maturing from explosive growth toward strategic optimization. It's a fascinating day in the developer world. Revolter AB is not just seeing companies growing, but a complete re-evaluation of what's actually worth investing in. Infrastructure, tools, and security are at the center stage, and that tells Revolter AB something important about where Revolter AB is in the AI era. Infrastructure becomes the new priority. Temporal secured roughly $500 million at a valuation exceeding $12 billion, and that's neither a surprise nor an accident. Orchestration for distributed systems is no longer nice-to-have, it's fundamental for anyone building modern backend systems. This is infrastructure enabling infrastructure, and investors understand it completely. For developers, it means quality tooling for the really tricky problems becomes easier to find. Cerebras and Etched continue the same theme from the hardware side. Etched saw its valuation double in just one month, and Cerebras is launching its CS-4 with specialized WSE-3 Turbo chips. This isn't random hardware upgrades, it's a strategy to solve the actual problem: inference costs. For developers managing large AI models, this means genuinely relevant alternatives to general-purpose GPUs will soon exist. Developers finally get heard. Apple restructured its App Store fee model in the EU and opened alternative app store integration. It's a major win for developer advocacy, straightforward as that. Meanwhile, Cursor launched its own code hosting platform that directly competes with GitHub. Developers are tired of tools that prioritize the company's vision over user experience, and there's now economic space for alternatives. What Revolter AB is seeing is a shift from developers accepting everything from established platforms to actually having choices. That's reflected in OpenAI absorbing its increased training costs instead of passing them to users. It's maturity in the industry. Science meets language models. Anthropic is laser-focused on demonstrating that Claude can solve concrete problems in protein design and analytical chemistry. These aren't more chatbot demos. These are measurable value for scientists. The company is also launching formal programs to give researchers access to these tools with proper support and documentation. For developers building applications in scientific domains, this is a watershed moment. You can't build generic AI tools and expect them to solve domain-specific problems anymore. You need to architect for specificity. Anthropic is helping make that possible. Security becomes serious. A breach at Hugging Face triggered new security safeguards from OpenAI, and Smack Technologies raised $61 million to build verifiable AI systems for military applications. These two stories are about the same thing: AI systems in high-risk scenarios require security and explainability that Revolter AB haven't fully solved yet. For developers, it means you need to start thinking about security, auditability, and verification from day one when you build AI systems. It's not just a deployment concern anymore. What Revolter AB take away. The day shows an industry growing up. Revolter AB is past "let's build something big and fast." Now it's about building right, with the right tools, on the right infrastructure, with the right security. Investment is flowing toward these mature solutions. For developers, that's good news, because quality tooling actually becomes available. This is part of Revolter's daily developer brief series.
Temporal has doubled its revenue year-over-year whilst AI spending surged fivefold, following a $300 million Series C at a $5 billion valuation. The workflow-automation platform mandated generative AI adoption across its 500-person team, requiring employees to integrate AI tools into daily workflows. The push has compressed development cycles dramatically. Work that previously took six months now completes in under 30 days, according to CTO Maxim Fateev. Temporal's customers include Nvidia and Netflix. The company's approach embeds AI into its durable execution platform rather than treating it as an add-on feature. The firm's 200 engineers must now demonstrate AI usage as a performance criterion, creating what leadership describes as a cultural shift. This strategy aims to accelerate product development and improve customer retention through AI-enhanced reliability.
Tech Moves: Remitly CMO departs; Temporal names EVP; Veeam and Qualtrics leadership changes. by Lisa Stiffler on Jul 13, 2026 at 10:17 am - Rina Hahn has left Seattle's Remitly as chief marketing officer. Hahn joined the remittance company in 2018 as director of digital marketing and rose to CMO after four years. Before joining Remitly, she was an executive at Blue Nile and Big Fish Games. The publicly traded company helps customers in more than 170 countries send money internationally. "I've seen firsthand the deep love this company has for its customers and the impact that purpose-driven work can have on immigrants and their families around the world," she said on LinkedIn. Hahn, who is based in London, did not share her next move. Remitly co-founder Matt Oppenheimer stepped down as CEO in February. - Temporal announced that Preeti Somal has been promoted to executive vice president in a role that will oversee the company's engineering, product and design operations, which were recently reorganized under a single leader. The industry is moving so fast that "we can't afford any distance between the people who decide what to build and the people who build it. Unifying these functions closes that loop," said CEO Samar Abbas on LinkedIn. Somal has been with Temporal for three years, joining from HashiCorp where she held EVP roles. The Seattle-area software company offers a platform for running complex computer workflows more reliably. In February, the business closed a $300 million round that pushed its valuation to $5 billion. Temporal is No. 2 on the GeekWire 200 is a ranked index of the Pacific Northwest's top startups. - Veeam Software, a Seattle-based data protection and ransomware recovery company, appointed Michelle Graff as senior vice president of global partners and channel. She joins from the cybersecurity company Commvault and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. "The future belongs to organizations that can transform trusted data into trusted AI with resilience built in from the start," Graff said on LinkedIn. Graff's hiring is the latest in a string of leadership changes at Veeam, which has made five other executive hires or promotions this year. - Qualtrics, an experience management technology company with headquarters in Seattle and Provo, Utah, has promoted Ken Hoang to senior vice president of product. Hoang is based in San Mateo, Calif., and will work remotely. He was previously a VP at Apptio in Bellevue, Wash. Qualtrics had a big leadership shakeup in April, when five executives were let go in what CEO Jason Maynard described as an effort to "simplify our structure and ensure we are positioned for our next phase of growth." Two product executives were among those who left, and Hoang joined the company around that time. Qualtrics, which employs more than 4,500 people globally, makes software that helps companies gather and act on feedback from customers, employees and others through surveys, AI-powered analytics and other tools. - Monica Lazo is now the sales director for Loopr AI, a Seattle startup that sells computer vision quality control software to manufacturing firms. She joins from Neurala, an AI platform automating visual inspections that is based in Boston. - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has named atmospheric scientist Larry Berg as the director of the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement User Facility. And some departures from Big Tech: * Mary Birkner is retiring from Microsoft after 21 years, primarily in leadership with Xbox. "I thank you for the laughter and goodness that were part of the journey to all the big work stuff," she said on LinkedIn. * Steve Andrews has closed out a 32-year career that included more than 11 years across two stints at Amazon, most recently as senior principal technical program manager. The TPM role "is often misunderstood and misused, so I dedicated a substantial amount of effort helping to set TPMs, their managers, and their teams up for success across the company," he said. "I hope it made a difference." * Jeff Nienaber is departing Microsoft after more than 16 years, leaving the role of senior director and principal PM for the office of the CTO. "I'm really excited to see what tomorrow's sunrise has in store," Nienaber said.
OpenBox AI and Temporal have launched an integration that embeds governance directly into the runtime layer for enterprise AI agents. The system combines Temporal's durable execution platform with OpenBox's authorisation and attestation capabilities, automatically injecting governance checks into workflows before actions occur. Gartner predicts that by 2027, 40% of enterprises will scale back or abandon autonomous agents due to governance failures emerging after production incidents. The integration addresses this by ensuring every agent action is authorised, recorded, and recoverable through policies that can allow, constrain, require approval, block, or halt operations. Human approvals survive failures and restarts, whilst cryptographic attestations and immutable audit logs provide continuous evidence trails. The integration is now available for developers building on Temporal's platform, which is used by companies including Stripe, Netflix, and Datadog.