Senior Staff Software Engineer, Unified Proxy

September 9

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Temporal Technologies

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Software • SaaS • Cloud Computing

Temporal Technologies is a company that provides a platform for durable execution, helping developers build resilient applications by managing failures, network outages, and long-running processes. Their technology abstracts away the complexity of building scalable distributed systems, allowing developers to focus on delivering reliable systems faster. Temporal simplifies code by eliminating recovery logic, callbacks, and timers, making software more durable and fault tolerant. The platform supports a wide variety of applications, from transaction processing to applied AI, and is favored by developers for its ease of use and reliability. Temporal is open-source and offers both self-hosted and managed cloud services in multiple regions, enabling scalable, serverless application development.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

☁️ SaaS

💰 $75M Series B on 2023-02

📋 Description

• Define and drive the architecture for a unified, pluggable proxy framework. • Establish technical standards for authentication, authorization, encryption, and observability across proxy implementations. • Evaluate and integrate existing customer-built, S2S, and Cloud Auth proxies into a single supported solution. • Translate high-level business and security requirements into technical designs. • Ensure proxy meets Tier 0 workload reliability, security, and performance standards. • Partner with Product, Security, and Customer Success to align roadmap with customer needs. • Work closely with Infra Foundations, Security, OSS Server, and CGS teams. • Engage directly with strategic customers to understand and incorporate their requirements. • Mentor other engineers on distributed systems architecture, networking, and security. • Drive the open-source development model, ensuring code quality, documentation, and extensibility. • Advocate for and implement patterns that simplify adoption by both internal and external developers. • Lead technical strategy and execution of the Unified Temporal Proxy initiative, consolidating disparate proxy implementations into a single, extensible, open-source, and productized solution.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience architecting and delivering high-availability, security-critical networking or proxy systems. • Deep understanding of authentication/authorization patterns (OIDC-OpenID Connect on top of OAuth), mTLS, JWT-JASON Web Token, custom identity integrations). • Expertise in data encryption at rest and in transit, including envelope encryption and key management. • Strong proficiency in Go or a comparable systems programming language. • Familiarity with distributed systems, RPC frameworks (gRPC), and cloud networking patterns. • Track record of leading complex, multi-team technical initiatives to successful delivery. • Ability to navigate ambiguity, define vision, and create alignment. • Experience influencing technical direction across organizational boundaries. • Previous contributions to open-source networking or security projects (nice-to-have). • Experience with hybrid cloud architectures and customer-facing APIs (nice-to-have). • Knowledge of Temporal architecture and its SDK ecosystem (nice-to-have).

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO • 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays • 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision • AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available) • Empower 401K Plan • Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more! • Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, issued in partnership with Remote.com • Perks for international employees: learning & career development, lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup, professional memberships, work-from-home meals, Calm app access • $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals • $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning • $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account • $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (in addition to company-issued hardware) • $500 / Year Professional Memberships • $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet • Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness