Staff Software Engineer - Test Systems & Tooling

Temporal
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 212,000 - 278,250 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Technical leadership","Cross-team collaboration","Written communication","Mentorship","Strategic influence"]

Lead technical initiatives for sophisticated system-level testing under production-like conditions. Build and evolve tooling for production-representative test environments, workload replay/generation, and repeatable failure-mode testing (including latency, dependency faults, and degraded-state recovery). Improve system-level test coverage through shared frameworks and paved paths, mentor engineers, and partner with Reliability and Release Engineering to integrate validations into continuous/release pipelines.

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Temporal
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Staff Software Engineer - Test Systems & Tooling

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Job Summary

Lead technical initiatives for sophisticated system-level testing under production-like conditions. Build and evolve tooling for production-representative test environments, workload replay/generation, and repeatable failure-mode testing (including latency, dependency faults, and degraded-state recovery). Improve system-level test coverage through shared frameworks and paved paths, mentor engineers, and partner with Reliability and Release Engineering to integrate validations into continuous/release pipelines.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and evolve tooling to spin up test cells resembling production topology, configuration, and behavior in partnership with Cloud/Infrastructure.
  • •Build workload generation and multi-tenant testing capabilities, including stress/load testing and replay/replay-like systems for controlled reproduction of production behaviors.
  • •Create tooling for repeatable failure-mode testing by injecting and validating latency, dependency faults, resource exhaustion, degraded-state recovery, and region-level failure scenarios.
  • •Identify high-impact system-level scenarios that are hard to test and implement repeatable coverage incorporated into continuous and/or release validation.
  • •Provide shared libraries, harnesses, and patterns for consistent system and integration test development; mentor engineers and influence testing strategy through design docs, code reviews, and cross-team collaboration.
Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 212,000 - 278,250 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Paid LeaveHealth InsuranceDentalVision401k

Key Requirements

  • •Strong software engineering fundamentals building and operating production-quality systems (platforms, infrastructure, developer tooling, or distributed systems).
  • •Demonstrated technical leadership leading ambiguous, cross-team initiatives and delivering durable systems relied on by others.
  • •Experience designing for observability, debuggability, and operational readiness (metrics, logs, tracing, safe rollouts, failure analysis).
  • •Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries with Cloud/Infrastructure, Reliability, Release Engineering, and product teams to land outcomes.
  • •Strong written communication skills for design docs, testing strategy proposals, and scalable documentation.
Experience:Open sourceDistributed systemsDeveloper toolingPlatform engineeringObservability
Skills:Technical leadershipCross-team collaborationWritten communicationMentorshipStrategic influence
Languages:English

Company Brief

Temporal
Builds an open-source orchestration platform for microservices and distributed applications, providing durable execution, stateful workflows, and developer-friendly APIs to simplify complex, long-running business processes.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2018
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