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Director of Engineering, Cloud Identity

United States - Remote Opportunity
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

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.

To learn more about the platform watch this video.

What You’ll Do

  • 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.

What You’ll Bring

  • 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.

Compensation

  • The estimated pay range for this role is $250,000 - $300,000
  • This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
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 
  • 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!
International Benefits
  • 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.
Additional Perks 
  • $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
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.
 
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