Temporal.io SME

job summary:

Randstad Digital is hiring and we're looking for someone like YOU to join our team! If you are seeking a new opportunity, looking to grow in your career, or you know someone who is - we want to hear from you! Take a look at the below opportunity, or feel free to visit RandstadUSA.com to view and apply.

location: Irving, Texas

job type: Contract

salary: $80 - 95 per hour

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education: Bachelors



responsibilities:

Architectural Leadership & Strategy

• Define the Enterprise Blueprint: Author the technical roadmap and architectural standards for deploying, scaling, and managing Temporal (Open Source or Temporal Cloud) across the enterprise.
• Cluster & Topology Design: Architect high-availability Temporal cluster topologies, including persistence layer optimization (Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL), multi-region failover strategies, and custom visibility configurations (Elasticsearch).
• Migration Strategy: Lead the strategic decommissioning of legacy orchestration tools, cron engines, and custom-built state machines, replacing them with clean, durable Temporal workflows.

Guardrails, Governance & Performance

• Establish SDK Standards: Create reusable libraries, boilerplate templates, and best-practice frameworks for developer teams utilizing Temporal SDKs (Go, Java, TypeScript, or Python).
• Performance Tuning: Act as the ultimate escalation point for complex debugging. Optimize worker pools, tune shard allocations, mitigate history size limits, and handle high-throughput/low-latency scaling bottlenecks.
• Security & Compliance: Implement data encryption standards (Data Converter pattern) to ensure sensitive payload data remains secure within Temporal workflows and histories.

qualifications:

Distributed Systems Mastery: 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production-grade, highly distributed cloud architectures.

Temporal Expertise: 3+ years of deep, production-level experience architecting solutions explicitly using Temporal.io (or its predecessor, Cadence).

Under the Hood Knowledge: Deep understanding of Temporal internals-specifically how the History service, Matching service, and Worker components interact, and how state is preserved deterministically.

Advanced Orchestration Patterns: Proven track record of implementing complex distributed patterns like the Saga Pattern, long-running loops (months/years), signal/query handling, and child workflows.

Language Proficiency: Expert proficiency in at least one primary Temporal SDK language (Go, Java, TypeScript, or .NET).

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Solid experience managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes) via Terraform or Helm, specifically for hosting Temporal workers and clusters.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.