Temporal

Temporal

Senior Engineering Manager, Compute

United States · Senior · Part-time

Sponsorship not specified$320k-$335kDetected 11 days ago
Code ReviewAWSGCPKubernetesTemporalIncident ResponseValuationPerformance ManagementLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

  • We're curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
  • Senior Engineering Manager, Compute Companies at the frontier of the AI revolution run on Temporal.
  • OpenAI runs on Temporal, handling millions of requests.

Responsibilities

  • Strategic direction for Compute: Own the strategy and standards of excellence for the compute layer that the world's agents run on, across design, delivery, and operations. Build a culture of ownership, quality, and customer-first decision-making.
  • Technical leadership: Lead, hire, and grow a high-ownership team
  • roll up sleeves, ready to do deep into the trenches, by staying close to design docs and code, rather than managing from a distance. Coach engineers, level them up, and clear the friction that slows them down.
  • Roadmap & trajectory: Drive the arc from today's compute toward the next-generation of compute platforms. Ground prioritization in customer and design-partner feedback, and turn ambiguous, fast-moving requirements into predictable, iterative delivery.
  • Operational excellence: When you run frontier AI in production, reliability is the product. Own operations, run on-call and incident response, and drive blameless postmortems and the systemic fixes that prevent recurrence.
  • Capacity, supply & economics: Own utilization, capacity and supply planning, and the cost-per-unit-of-compute and margin profile of the fleet, across CPU compute today and accelerated compute ahead.
  • Strategic direction for Compute: Own the strategy and standards of excellence for the compute layer that the world's agents run on, across design, delivery, and operations.
  • Build a culture of ownership, quality, and customer-first decision-making.
  • Technical leadership: Lead, hire, and grow a high-ownership team; roll up sleeves, ready to do deep into the trenches, by staying close to design docs and code, rather than managing from a distance.
  • Own the strategy and standards of excellence for the compute layer that the world's agents run on, across design, delivery, and operations.

Requirements

  • Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
  • Proven experience leading software engineering teams that build and operate large-scale compute platforms or fleets, with strong operational practices.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to partner across engineering, product, and leadership and fold customer feedback into the roadmap.
  • Required Skills
  • ability to grow engineers and build a healthy, accountable, high-ownership team.
  • Excellence in execution: planning, prioritization, and delivering iterative milestones in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment while managing unplanned work.
  • Fleet thinking: utilization, goodput, capacity and supply planning, and cost discipline as first-class engineering concerns.
  • Live-site reliability craft: on-call, incident management & response, and postmortem-driven continuous improvement.
  • Strong command of the building blocks of a compute platform: multi-tenant isolation and security, scheduling, and resource management.

Nice to have

  • 12+ years in software and/or infrastructure engineering, including 7+ years of people management and demonstrated ownership of delivery and live-site outcomes.
  • Deep distributed-systems and compute infrastructure depth, with the hands-on judgment to guide architecture and execution rather than from a distance.
  • Experience operating multi-tenant compute that other people's production workloads depend on.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • advanced degree a plus.
  • Strong leadership, coaching, and performance management
  • MicroVMs and virtualization (Firecracker, gVisor, Edera) or managed-compute primitives (AWS Fargate, GCP Cloud Run, AWS Lambda), and/or Kubernetes internals.
  • Multi-cloud delivery across AWS and GCP.

Skills

  • Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Compensation

  • The estimated pay range for this role is $320,000 - $335,000.
  • Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets.

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)
  • 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.

Company info

  • 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!
  • Senior Engineering Manager, Compute
  • Companies at the frontier of the AI revolution run on Temporal.
  • Cursor runs its cloud coding agents on Temporal at over 50 million actions a day across 7M+ workflows, and more than a third of the pull requests its users merge now come from those agents.
  • Replit, Lovable, Abridge, and Hebbia build their agents on it too.
  • In the last year alone, AI-native companies executed 1.86 trillion actions on Temporal Cloud, and the curve is still bending upwards.
  • 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.
  • Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future.

Equal opportunity

  • 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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