
Temporal develops and distributes the world's leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industry's most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.

Temporal develops and distributes the world's leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industry's most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
Product: Open-source Durable Execution platform plus managed Temporal Cloud
Founders: Maxim Fateev (CTO) and Samar Abbas (CEO)
Industry: Software Development — developer/platform tooling for stateful workflows
Employees: 412 (reported)
Total disclosed funding: Approximately $350M (as of Series C) and other disclosed totals up to $706.3M in datasets
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Stateful orchestration and durable execution for workflows and microservices
Software Development
18.75M
Series A increased total raised to $25.5M at announcement
75M
Announced as a $75M round (B extension) with participation from existing investors including Greenoaks
146M
Reported to bring cumulative disclosed funding to about $350M
“Sequoia Capital, Amplify Partners, Madrona Venture Group, Addition, Index Ventures, Greenoaks, Tiger Global, GIC”
Who We Are Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. Our amazing user community provides us with real-time feedback and contributions to improve the developer experience everywhere.
Backed by top VC firms, we have built a team of professionals from various successful start-ups and well-known technology companies. Together, we collaborate cross-functionally, engage with and support our users to improve the developer experience, deliver world-class open-source software, and enhance our commercial SaaS platform.
Temporal is growing and working towards building the best community. We are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for helping developer communities, open-source software, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
Summary We are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer in Temporal's Cloud Global Services team to lead the technical strategy and execution of the Unified Temporal Proxy initiative. This individual will be responsible for consolidating disparate proxy implementations into a single, extensible, open-source, and productized solution. The unified proxy is not only a critical enabler for customers —providing security, encryption, and advanced integration capabilities—but also a core component of Temporal Cloud’s own infrastructure , powering hybrid-cloud scenarios and new functionality such as HTTP endpoint support and AI/agent workloads.
The role spans architecture, cross-team collaboration, customer engagement, open-source leadership, and long-term product ownership , with a mandate to build and deliver a reliable, extensible foundation that will serve both customer-facing and internal needs for years to come.
To see a demo of prior work by the CGS team via a keynote at a Temporal Replay Conference. Liang Mei (CGS eng. leader), demos work (see: around 37 minutes into the video). *See demo new window opens The Need for a General Proxy The Unified Proxy Will Be a Critical Enabler For Both Customers And Temporal Cloud. It Is a Foundational Component That Will Unlock The Next Phase Of Temporal’s Platform Evolution
Customers can depend on the proxy as a secure, production-grade tool that enforces policies consistently and reduces the risk of misconfiguration across all Temporal-related activities. Key concerns addressed include payload encryption , fine-grained authorization logic , and integration with custom identity stores , among others.
The unified proxy introduces capabilities that are otherwise not possible, such as migrations between self-hosted clusters and Temporal Cloud without requiring complex custom setups. It will also become the preferred way to support HTTP endpoints for Temporal services , expanding accessibility and simplifying integrations.
In a future where AI agents are abundant and interact via the Temporal Nexus protocol with MCP servers , the proxy will serve as a central component to ensure secure, controlled, and seamless communication patterns.
Beyond enabling customer adoption, the unified proxy is a pillar of Temporal Cloud’s own infrastructure , powering internal services and extending Temporal’s ability to support hybrid-cloud and enterprise-grade scenarios.
Key Responsibilities
Qualifications Must-Have Technical Skills
Leadership & Impact
Nice-to-Have
Success Criteria (12–18 Months)
Compensation
Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process. Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded. U.S. Benefits
International Benefits
Additional Perks
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity. Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist. We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.
Technical Leadership
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.
Strategic Alignment & Productization
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.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
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.
Open Source & Developer Experience
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.