Temporal Technologies
StaffSoftwareEngineer,CloudIdentity
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“Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Identity at Temporal Technologies. Skills: Identity, Authentication, Authorization, Distributed Systems. Design and build identity platform. Scale auth hot path”
What You'll Achieve.
deliver features faster; reliable foundation; secure by default capabilities; Scale the auth hot path to meet Temporal Cloud's SLOs; keep latency low; eliminate single points of failure; ship secure-by-default patterns; define IAM lifecycle and audit strategies; shape the technical roadmap
Industry & Context.
unblock adoption
on-call ownership, Occasional travel may be required
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Deep hands-on experience building and operating production identity systems, Track record operating latency-sensitive distributed systems in production, on-call ownership, operational excellence
Nice to Have
Contributions to identity OSS projects, Experience with compliance frameworks, Familiarity with Temporal or other durable-execution engines, Experience designing customer-facing API auth, building well-structured APIs
What You'll Do.
Design and build identity platform
Integrate with enterprise IdPs
Own SCIM provisioning
Threat-model identity flows
Partner with Security
Shape technical roadmap
Maintain architecture docs
Engage with customers
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
partners closely with Security, Product, and platform teams; align stakeholders across security, product, and engineering; globally distributed, collaborative team
Communication Scope
communication skills with the ability to align stakeholders; engage directly with customers
Process & Methodology
drive execution end-to-end
Full Job Description
About Us 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. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen. Our values guide us —they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We’re curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble. Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you! Summary Temporal is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Identity to design, build, and operate the identity and access platform behind Temporal Cloud — a multi-tenant SaaS serving high-throughput workloads. You'll own the systems that authenticate humans and workloads, authorize fine-grained access to namespaces and APIs, federate with customer IdPs, and distribute auth material to clients and workers at scale. This role partners closely with Security, Product, and platform teams to deliver "secure by default" capabilities without compromising developer or operator experience. What You'll Do Design and build Temporal Cloud's identity platform end-to-end — authentication (OAuth 2.0/2.1, OIDC, SAML, token exchange), authorization (RBAC/ReBAC/policy engines), and workload identity federation — so customers and workloads authenticate without long-lived secrets Scale the auth hot path to meet Temporal Cloud's SLOs: in-memory auth bundles, JWKS caching, decision caching, and revocation strategies that keep latency low and eliminate single points of failure Integrate with enterprise IdPs (Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace, SAML/OIDC), own SCIM 2.0 provisioning, and
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