BackendDevOps/CloudHigh signalEmergingAround since 2020
Workflow Engines (Temporal)
Also written as Temporal, Durable Execution, Cadence, AWS Step Functions, Step Functions
Tools for running long, multi-step business processes (orders, onboarding, payments) that must survive crashes and resume where they left off. Temporal is the best-known; AWS Step Functions is Amazon's managed version.
Think of it like
A project manager with a perfect memory: if anyone drops out halfway, the work picks up exactly where it stopped.
Junior or senior?
A real distributed-systems signal, common at fintech and high-scale companies.
Senior sounds like
Talks about what problem it replaced (fragile cron jobs, hand-built retry logic).
Ask them
“What were you doing before the workflow engine, and what problem did it fix?”