Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Identity New
Company: Temporal Technologies
Location: Remote (Remote)
Salary: $212,000 - $237,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-06-10
About this role
### 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 Senior Software Engineer for Identity to help design, build, and operate the identity and access systems behind Temporal Cloud — a multi-tenant SaaS platform. You'll work on the systems that authenticate users and workloads, authorize access to namespaces and APIs, and integrate with customer identity providers. You'll partner with Security, Product, and infrastructure teams to deliver "secure by default" capabilities while keeping the developer and operator experience strong.
## What You'll Do
- Build and improve core parts of Temporal Cloud's identity platform — authentication (OAuth 2.0/OIDC, SAML), authorization (RBAC and policy-based access), and workload identity — so customers and workloads can authenticate securely
- Help keep the auth path fast and reliable to meet Temporal Cloud's SLOs through caching, token handling, and revocation strategies
- Integrate with enterprise identity providers (Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace) and support user provisioning (SCIM), with attention to common identity threats such as token replay and privilege escalation
- Partner with Security, Product, and platform ...