Director of Engineering, Cloud Identity

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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

• Identity and Access Management (IAM) is foundational to delivering a secure, enterprise-ready developer platform. • As Director of Engineering for IAM at Temporal, you will be responsible for defining and driving the strategy, architecture, and execution of our IAM systems across both the control and data planes. • This is a high-impact leadership role that shapes how customers authenticate, authorize, and interact with Temporal across cloud environments. • You’ll collaborate closely with security, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, performant, and secure identity systems that support our largest customers and unlock future growth. • Set Technical Vision: Define and own the long-term IAM architecture and strategy, aligned with product needs and security standards. • Lead Execution: Guide the IAM engineering team in delivering robust authentication and authorization systems, ensuring low latency and high reliability. • Engage with Enterprise Needs: Leverage insights from enterprise customers to prioritize features and deliver IAM capabilities that remove blockers to adoption and expansion. • Build with Ecosystem Awareness: Design composable architectures that integrate with, rather than rebuild, existing tools—leveraging OSS and commercial IAM solutions when appropriate. • Cross-functional Leadership: Partner with Product, Security, and Infrastructure Engineering to develop and execute on roadmaps, system designs, and delivery plans. • Security-First Mindset: Ensure all IAM systems are built with strong security fundamentals, from threat modeling to the design of our authz data model, machine-based auth, and fine-grained access controls.

🎯 Requirements

• Deep IAM Expertise: Experience designing and building complex IAM systems, including user/account/resource data models, low-latency authorization systems, and API key management. • Enterprise Awareness: Ability to translate enterprise needs into a strategic roadmap. Experience working directly with large customers to inform priorities and validate approaches. • Strong Architectural Judgment: Track record of designing scalable and resilient systems, and making thoughtful tradeoffs around build vs buy, performance vs complexity, etc. • Security Fundamentals: Solid grounding in threat modeling, encryption, secrets management, and other core principles required to lead secure system design conversations. • Cloud Infrastructure Knowledge: Familiarity with modern cloud IAM models (e.g., AWS IAM, GCP IAM) and how they influence multi-tenant platform design. • Leadership Experience: 7+ years of engineering leadership with at least 3 years managing managers or Staff+ ICs. Proven ability to build high-performing teams and mentor deeply technical engineers.

🏖️ 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, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness. • $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 Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you) • $500 / Year Professional Memberships • $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet • Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness